Tim Romano wrote: > http://www.mentalfloss.com/newissue.htm >> >> I have not seen it yet, but I understand there is an article on EP in >> MENTAL FLOSS magazine Vol.2 Issue 5 by Greg Barnhisel. Has anyone read >> it? I purchased this magazine and read most of it, and I do not recommend it. I struggle for vocabulary to describe it... it's trying to do the sound-bite version of erudition or something. It's full of "fascinating facts", and no article is longer than 3 or 4 pages, the attitude is pretty relentlessly gee-whiz. The piece on Pound is a flat under-written recital of the facts, with big-font pull-outs obviously inserted by someone who had read neither the article nor any Pound. Any recital of the essentials on EP ought to elicit at least two chosen from a list including pity, contempt, and awe. I left the magazine in a hotel room but my recollection is that not one word of the verse is excerpted. It says Mauberley is "perhaps Pound's finest poem." I can't imagine what kind of person invents such a magazine. -- Cheers, Tim Bray (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)