Among the topics suggested, I favor " Tribalisms" and "Translations"
--though some polyglot rivalling Pound would have to tackle that.
        Mr. Kibler's reference to "Tribalisms" giveme an opportunity to
advertise my book, Ritual and Experiment in Modern Poetry (St. Martins
Press, 1995). The two chapters on Pound argue that the element linking
these cultures to each other in Pound's mind (and linking many of this
ideas as well) is ritual.
                                                Jacob Korg
 
 On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Robert Kibler wrote:
 
> I would vote for "Ezra Pound and his Tribalisms."  This would allow for a wide variety of papers concerning all of those affinities with this, that or the other group of peoples found throughout time and space and used by Pound in his work.  My own interest is in Pound's engagement with the Naxi people of Lijiang, but think of the others-- the African myth of Wagadu, the Malatesta camp, the followers of the Duke of Chou, the Mohammedans, all those folk from Fraser who worshipped trees, the Cadmian line, the Egyptians, the Tuscans--any real, historical group, really, with which he made alliance in order to further his artistic vision.
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> Or how about "Ezra Pound an his Heroes?"  What a list, and all important, both as a collective, and in Pound's distinct understanding and usage of each of them.  Again, the Duke of Chou, et cetera.
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> Or how about "The Crusades of Ezra Pound"  A look at his various attempts to assert a moral imperative through artistic and political vision?
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