i'm a hack poet who's never been to college.
i don't drink (or use any drugs for that matter).
i hate the computer, but love to use it for resources like this (which,
dispite my tone, i am enjoying so far).
-all- of my friends enjoy pound. we range from philosopher/poet types, to
painters, to silly punk kids. we read him, talk about him, are influeced, etc.
few of us are in school.
all of us read.
jeff.
 
>By the way, when I facetiously mention
>"the twenty-nothing and thirty-
>nothing generation that has hardly even heard of
>[EP]," I am certainly not implicating literate
>grad students like Erin T. but rather the whole
>[de-]generation of audiophilic, bibliophobic
>digerati who are more likely to learn via the
>Net--which is our current substitute for
>Authority and even God--than from old-fart, my-
>generational media like paper.
>
>Dan P
>
>>
>>Dan Pearlman thought out loud:
>>
>>>>if the Cantos were to become available
>>in hypertext format on the 'Net (infinite Borgesian
>>links, etc.) we would see a tremendous upsurge in
>>interest in EP among the twenty-nothing and thirty-
>>nothing generation that has hardly even heard of
>>him.  ND might be smart to offer, let's say, the
>>first 30 Cantos in this format on the Net for
>>free and hope to rope in buyers of a CD-hypertext
>>version of the whole work.  Maybe even the book
>>itself.<<
>>
>>Perfect. I hope they start tomorrow. I reckon we got the 20th century
>>wrong. We might as well line up again at the starting gate.
>>
>>regards,
>>
>>Harold Rhenisch
>>[log in to unmask]
>>
>Dan Pearlman
>Department of English
>University of Rhode Island
>Kingston, RI 02881
>
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        There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass,
        there are only
        eyes in all heads
        to be looked out of
 
                             -charles olson, from "letter 6" (of the maximus                                    poems)