I don't!!!   And most poets I know don't either...
 
Billy Marshall Stoneking
 
 
 
 
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From: Daniel Pearlman <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: Pound Outside the Academy
 
 
> Those poets and academics (they overlap) who praise Pound
> for Imagism are frequently the same who dismiss or condemn
> anything of his post-Mauberley.
>
> ==DP
>
>
> >this is quite true.  Most people are quick to dismiss Pound.  And then
> >there are the poets.  Last week at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference,
Alan
> >Shapiro said there was no more important poetic movement in the twentieth
> >century than Imagism, and quoted a poem of his to indicate near-perfect
use
> >of I don't remember what, sadly.  And another poet there who'll be
teaching
> >a class on Poetics at Texas this fall told me about how he'll use Pound
as
> >a way to introduce Chinese poetry and poetics to the class.  And
yesterday
> >I read an article in some journal or other that applauded the seriousness
> >of Pound's love of all poetic traditions as a model for contemporary
poets,
> >mentioning that without him etc etc etc.  I suppose Pound achieved
> >something of what he wanted.  The artists recognize him as one of the
> >antennae of our race.  To hell, then, with the bullet-headed many.
> >Journalists and a lot of professors may have a hard time with his work,
but
> >he comes as close as I can imagine to being a poet's poet; no one who's
> >ever written lines down seriously would dare consider much of his work
> >a-tonal.
> >
> >Lucas
> >
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