> What do you think: can it be that in ten
>years our kids are going to regard Pound the way young people regarded Pope
>in, say, 1808, and for the same intelligible and not serious reasons?
>
 
I don't think it will take ten years. My son is sixteen, writes fiction and
poetry, reads Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Burroughs. He thinks Pound is a
fossil. Or worse, a crazy boring old Fascist fossil that his dad reads. But
even factoring out the generational static between us, I think Pound will
continue to be an acquired taste as the years roll along. I notice that my
son and his friends favor **short** poems and fiction. I think perhaps
television and MTV, digested by my son in large quantities, may have worked
against EP (or Stevens, or even Whitman) in this regard.
 
And strangely enough, they all loathe language poetry...
 
Joe Ahearn
Rancho Loco Press
Dallas
 
 
 
 
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