Please check that in the email header, your name is written as Stoner James, but here it is Stoner James. Which one is correct ? > I suppose my point is that Pound scholars--academic or not--have a very > difficult time, indeed, in persuading people who do read poetry (and enjoy > it), that Pound is worth reading, other than saying, "if you don't like > him, don't read him." Your job as "Poundians" should be, at least to a > large degree, is to bring him out of the muddy depths and into the clear > blue water, rather than letting his corpse rot in the steel hull four > miles below the ocean top. Who really cares about Pound? Why don't > people care about Pound? I would submit that it's because of the elitist > attitudes represented by many folks on this site. What really, my fellow > Pound friends, entices one to want to read Pound? Your replies are a > sorry testiment to the fact that 50 years from now Pound will have had a > wooden stake pounded in his bloodless heart. If this group, representing > the true Pound scholars, can give no more than their moving testemonies to > Pound's greatness as a poet, and nothing else, than indeed why go on. > Maybe Pound is dead. Maybe that is what I'm hearing. > > I have studied Pound as a side show for some years. I find much value in > his work, however, he's difficult and obscure, as you know. The > translators can't even translate him well enough to get young people > interested in him. My final opinion is that maybe you folks would do > better to find the value and articulate that value in a way that folks can > understand it, to get them interested enough so that they will continue > searching the mud. Maybe, if on occassion, a golden nugget appeared, we > might want to go on looking, coming up from time to time to clean our > lungs, warm our bones, and dive again. > > Yes, Emerson (more so than Plato) expressed a poetic and wrote with poetic > prose. Emerson's poetry may stink, but his prose is truly poetic, in > every sense of the word. Yes, indeed, I prefer the poet philosopher over > the poet politician (Mr. Pound falls into the latter category.) > > How does one unsubscibe from a group that fails to reflect critically upon > its own activity. > > I thank you all for enlightening me to the value of this man's work. I > wish you luck. I will go on without you, but I doubt one man can keep his > work alive. I hold little power that way. > > Truly, dismayed. > > I did not spell check this, what's the use? > > James Stoner > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com