Dearest Ms. E. Evans: Into my country and across dominican-american community, within lecturers from my poetry generation (1980's) Pound it's a very important author, very respected, quoted and analized. -------------------------- Ezra Pound's poetry and aesthetics: into Ibero America and Caribbean cultures ------------------------ We're going to translate and promote your international event about E. Pound, within Alojo! (www.alojo.com)a virtual Cultural Center, about solidarity,humanities and social sciences for Caribbean, Latin American and Spain, artists, researchers and consulting sectors within civil society or Non Government Organizations/non profit institutions. I think that's the most interesting subject under discussion, in all those 3 years,I get as member from this community: Pound-poetry-power-censorship-ways of protests-banned texts. If you try to understand those subjects, take by example references books, on line or into American data base: ask for Pound, today. ANSWER:"he's a nuts,patient,an antiamerican, non loyal, support Mussolini, and bla, bla, bla"...and after all this information, oriented to blackade freely interaction with his text, as Encarta Enc., and too many others virtual data bases...start to explain his poetry... In other hand, as institution and as authors we're very interested in feedback about: "[...]XXth International Ezra Pound Conference on EP and American Identity (2-6 July 2003). Our hope is that a number of panel proposals for that latter conference may develop in the course of our discussion this fall. The MSA4 seminar description is as follows: >What does an American poet owe America? This seminar addresses the ways in which modern American poets chose to represent their homeland, its citizens, and themselves from the metropolitan centers of Europe during and between the two world wars. In addition to studies of individual poets, we will also pay special attention to collaborative efforts between poets and other artists and intellectuals, such as those found in avant-garde groupings, salon affiliations, and publishing coteries. Relevant themes include--but are not limited to--the role of poetic language in the political, poetry's forms of praise and protest, issues of censorship and circulation, expatriates' access to domestic audiences, and the various ways in which loyalty and treason were defined during the period[...]". Greetings, from a sunny, and relaxing Caribbean corner, Yoe F. Santos CEO Cultural Center 4 Audio Visual Exchange, Non Profit Org Dominican Republic West Indies (www.alojo.com/yoe) ----- Vice-President Corporative Relations by Multicultural Virtual Space Alojo! www.alojo.com ------ Feedback/ Data Base: SANTOS GRACIANO, Yoe F. Born La Vega, Dominican Republic (1962). Speaker,essayist,poet and editor, who alternate cultural promotion, social research and management consulting, across Dominican Republic (1976-2002). Since 1996 he's working issues linked with socio-cultural impact from internet, within creative process, learning by doing,for non industrialized societies, particularly: Caribbeans and Latin Americans. Santos who was (or still is) a very rebel, iconoclastic and acid criticism author, likes to define himself as: "one citizen from underground country, the sensitive and spiritual nation,4 solidarity, across the WWW". Some of his creative and reflexive works had been edited or used as tool for debates- poetry,essays or articles about education,new technologies, social sciences or humanities- into Mexico,Dominican Republic, Argentina,Brasil, Australia, Puerto Rico, USA,Neederland Antilles Islands or Spain, essentially. Since 1998, and trying to understand better the internet, is a MISTICA Community member (www.funredes.org/mistica). Member International Ass. Journalists of Internet(API)since,2000. “TIC’s, TAZ, TOC...ralenti. Sabor de Tambores y cotidianidad” (essay) (2001) (www.alojo.com/essay/tics/creatividad/ ongs/yoe.santos/alc1.shtml). Currently, preparing an autobigraphic work,about vocational elections “Vivir: servir y sobrevivir en el siglo XXI (1996-2002)”. ------ "El maestro del porvenir tendrá a su cargo la tarea más grave de la sociedad, enseñar con el ejemplo: enseñar a aprender, aprendiendo; enseñar a hacer,haciendo; enseñar a amar, amando... Educar debe ser un arte agradable" Jose Ingenieros(1902) ------ "Reclamo plenamente mi derecho a participar de las contradicciones de mi tiempo...ningún poder, un poco prudente de saber y el máximo posible de sabor" Roland Barthes (1968) -------------------- "Necesitamos libros que hagan en nosotros el efecto de una desgracia, que nos duelan[...] como un suicidio, un libro tiene que ser el hacha para el mar helado que llevamos dentro". Franz Kafka---------- --------------- Cultural Center 4 Audio-Visual Exchange (CCAVE) is a non profit, non religious, non militant,non commercial organization, created in Dominican Republic, after july 8th,1984, oriented to make possible, within audio-visual, cultural, and social fields: diversity, friendship, solidarity, criticism, and creative process as complementary support for selfgovernment and development, as plural societies in Caribbean, Latin America and Third World. Talent, Criticism & Friendship!! Talento, Criticidad, Amistad!! _________________________________________________________________ Hable con sus amigos en línea, pruebe MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.es