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Tim Romano wrote:
> http://www.mentalfloss.com/newissue.htm
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>> I have not seen it yet, but I understand there is an article on EP in
>> MENTAL FLOSS magazine Vol.2 Issue 5 by Greg Barnhisel. Has anyone read
>> it?
I purchased this magazine and read most of it, and I do not recommend
it. I struggle for vocabulary to describe it... it's trying to do the
sound-bite version of erudition or something. It's full of "fascinating
facts", and no article is longer than 3 or 4 pages, the attitude is
pretty relentlessly gee-whiz. The piece on Pound is a flat
under-written recital of the facts, with big-font pull-outs obviously
inserted by someone who had read neither the article nor any Pound. Any
recital of the essentials on EP ought to elicit at least two chosen from
a list including pity, contempt, and awe. I left the magazine in a
hotel room but my recollection is that not one word of the verse is
excerpted. It says Mauberley is "perhaps Pound's finest poem." I can't
imagine what kind of person invents such a magazine.
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Cheers, Tim Bray
(ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
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