Dear Burt, Please find pasted below a first attempt at coming up with a summary of a paper proposal for an MSA6 panel. Let me know what you think, and we can perhaps put something together in time for the deadline. Of course, you would be writing on Blaser. Who else were you thinking of inviting? If you do not have anyone in mind, I may be able to come up with a name or two. Someone like Miranda Hickman (she teaches at McGill these days) might be a possibility. In any case, let me know what you think. Best to you and Virginia, Demetres Already in the early 1980s Frank Davey recognized the importance of Louis Dudek as a poet whose stature is equal to those of Bunting, Olson, and Spicer and whose major long modernist poems “open up formal possibilities which are later to dominate important work by Marlatt, Bowering, Nichol, Lee and Kroetsch” (Louis Dudek: Text 7), Dudek’s relationship with Ezra Pound and the importance of that relationship in the genesis of a distinctively Canadian, second-generation literary modernism has not received much scholarly attention. On the other hand, Pound’s poetry and criticism and this work’s radical ideological openness have been viewed by American critics (including Canadian- born literary modernist critic Hugh Kenner) as most responsible for the unprecedented blossoming in American literature of formally innovative, open, and open-ended poetry. This is a poetry that questions received notions of poetic form through its radically modernist, abrupt, paratactic techniques of disconnectedness and discontinuity, visual experimentation, textual heterogeneity, and undigested quality. Pound is largely responsible for making possible the innovations of successive generations of American poets, from the Projectivist group, to the Objectivists, to the language poetry of Charles Bernstein and so on. A similar argument may be possible for the importance of Pound’s poetry-- as mediated by Dudek–in the development of a Canadian, second- generation, modernist poetry. This seminar invites papers dealing with American modernism’s influence on Canadian, second-generation modernist poetry. Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos Professor, Dept. of English Assistant Dean, School of Graduate Studies University of New Brunswick School of Graduate Studies P.O. Box 4400 Fredericton, NB Canada E3B 5A3