okay. thanks. "Foolish is he who stands guard over my intentions, but pays no heed to his own. Theognis, lines 439-40, Greek Elegiac Poetry, Loeb Classic Robert E. Kibler, PhD Professor of Literature and Humanities Minot State University, Minot North Dakota 701 858 3876 ________________________________________ From: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Roxana Preda [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 5:51 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: EPS Information bulletin no.3/November 10, 2013 Yes Robert, membership in the EPS is instituted when you subscribe to the journal. I look forward to your panel proposal for the ALA. Let us all know when you're ready. Quoting Robert Kibler <[log in to unmask]> on Wed, 13 Nov 2013 23:33:08 +0000: > hi Roxana--is a subscription to Paideuma and the EPS one and the > same? I have never been clear about that. Thanks for your > response--and I hope to be sending the Pound list a promotion soon > for a panel discussion at the upcming ALA in Washington DC. > Congratulations on taking up Paideuma. Robert > > "Foolish is he who stands guard over my intentions, but pays no heed > to his own. > Theognis, lines 439-40, Greek Elegiac Poetry, Loeb Classic > > Robert E. Kibler, PhD > Professor of Literature and Humanities > Minot State University, Minot North Dakota > 701 858 3876 > > > ________________________________________ > From: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine > [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Roxana Preda > [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 4:24 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: EPS Information bulletin no.3/November 10, 2013 > > Dear Robert, > There no form, not yet, anyway. If you'd like to join the society, > make a subscription to Paideuma. > With all my best, > Roxana > > Quoting Robert Kibler <[log in to unmask]> on Wed, 13 Nov > 2013 19:41:22 +0000: > >> where does one get the form to join the EPS? I would like one. >> Thanks. Robert >> >> "Foolish is he who stands guard over my intentions, but pays no heed >> to his own. >> Theognis, lines 439-40, Greek Elegiac Poetry, Loeb Classic >> >> Robert E. Kibler, PhD >> Professor of Literature and Humanities >> Minot State University, Minot North Dakota >> 701 858 3876 >> >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine >> [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Grace Davis >> [[log in to unmask]] >> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 1:33 PM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: EPS Information bulletin no.3/November 10, 2013 >> >> Thanks, Roxana, for this wonderful information. I did not know all >> of this, certainly, and many people want to know what's what. You >> are great and continue to inject life into the society. I wrote Mary >> de Rachewiltz about your work, and she is happy. Love, Grace >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Roxana Preda <[log in to unmask]> >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 2:26 PM >> Subject: EPS Information bulletin no.3/November 10, 2013 >> >> >> Dear Poundians, >> >> I have written the text below as a short historical report on our >> society ? it is not meant to be exhaustive and final, but to settle >> some important points for us and better define our society. Please >> write to me if you find errors or would like to add info I may have >> overlooked. >> >> Many people have helped me with information: warmest thanks are due >> to Gail Sapiel, who gave me scans of documents from the Paideuma >> archives; Prof. Barry Ahearn who generously sent me a copy of his >> own historical report of 2001; Rick Catrone for adding a scan that I >> circulated to friends to ask for advice, and finally Demetres >> Tryphonopoulos who pointed out a very informative article by Burt >> Hatlen ? you?ll find my sources at the bottom of the report. >> >> This short history of the society is the first part of a larger >> posting about the society in the context of the other initiatives in >> which Poundians are involved. But that other colourful info is >> reserved for later. My first story now concerns the EPS. >> >> The Ezra Pound Society - The Story So Far >> >> Our tale begins in 1978, when Carroll F. Terrell had the initiative >> of adding a ?book club? to the National Poetry Foundation. He had >> created the NPF seven years previously, to enable the launching of >> Paideuma. Since 1972, the journal had gathered around it the best >> scholarship on Ezra Pound and implicitly created a community of >> scholars who would have needed to buy books that were of great >> interest to them, but too specialized for a general market. At some >> point, Terrell wanted to rename the NPF ? he made the attempt of >> calling it the Ezra Pound Society. However, this did not work out. >> This is what he wrote: >> >> "Stuffed into the pages of this issue you will find ? a membership >> blank which is an invitation to join the Ezra Pound Society as an >> adjunct activity of the National Poetry Foundation, Inc. I had once >> planned to convert the Foundation to the new name, but the red tape >> and legal fees make that idea [with apologies] 'inoperative.' Since >> we can accomplish the same thing by this ploy, the trouble is also >> unnecessary. >> ? >> My idea is to form a sort of Mini-Readers Subscription Club made up >> of people who will be the most interested in special studies on the >> work of Pound. I expect to publish 2 to 4 books a year but will >> deliberately choose those which commercial publishers or university >> presses cannot print because they can be expected to have too small >> a market. [?] Members of the Ezra Pound Society will receive a 50% >> discount on each book." (Paideuma Bulletin Board, 8 1 Spring 1979) >> >> In the same number, Terrell announced the formation of two >> "chapters" of the EPS: one at the University of Maine and one in >> Kyoto, expressing the hope that similar organisations of minimum ten >> members would be created to form a network of chapter locations in >> the United States, Canada and Europe. This did not come to pass. The >> two initial chapters are the only ones that have been created to >> date. Membership to the society in the Western hemisphere was >> established by the subscription to Paideuma, which continued to be >> the axis of all Terrell?s initiatives. He wrote the initial charter >> of the society, which established the minimum number of members, the >> dues ($25), and the privileges (free issue of Paideuma and 50% >> discount on books). This initial charter was rather unspecific as to >> the kind of officers it might have needed, since Terrell assumed the >> type of officer would be determined locally. Since this was to be a >> network, the document also mentioned >> ?delegates? to ?national meetings.? The mission of the society was >> to ?promote and develop the study of Pound?s work as a poet and man >> of letters.? (charter document, 1978) >> The year the EPS was founded (1979, if we take it to overlap with >> the announcement in Paideuma) was very critical. Terrell was >> finishing the first volume of the Companion (published in 1980) and >> was also retiring from full time academic duties (1981) to >> concentrate on the second volume (1985). Additionally, the NPF was >> enlarging its sphere of scholarly interest to the Objectivists and >> other poets in the Pound tradition: Terrell founded Sagetrieb in >> 1982 and after the first issue asked Burt Hatlen to take over >> editorship (Hatlen 59). In 1989, Terrell gave up full-time >> responsibility for the NPF, though continuing to act as consultant >> for Paideuma (Hatlen 48). Membership in the EPS was in all respects >> included within the NPF and its activities at Orono: the publication >> of the journals, the conferences at the University of Maine (1975, >> 1980, 1985, 1990), and the books that were published under the aegis >> of the NPF. >> >> It was Burt Hatlen who gave our society a degree of autonomy when he >> became Director of the NPF and Secretary of the EPS in 1990. In 1992 >> he revised the initial charter of the EPS and established a set of >> amended by-laws that are still governing the society today. Hatlen >> proposed that since membership to the society is the subscription to >> the journal, a dollar from the Paideuma subscription should go into >> financing the EPS. The revision of the by-laws had become necessary >> because Terrell?s initial idea of the EPS as network of local >> chapters had not materialized. Additionally, the society was >> applying for MLA affiliate status and had to comply with the MLA >> conditions: a society had to be at least four years old, have a >> charter, dues paying membership, and an elected slate of officers. >> Additionally, the MLA stipulated that members should have the >> opportunity ?to participate in the full range of the operations of >> the organisation? (Hatlen, letter to >> members, July 20, 1992). >> >> From the bulletin board of the Paideuma (spring-fall 1992), we can >> see that Hatlen?s procedures fully complied with MLA directives and >> were radically democratic: he sent out cards with requests for votes >> and scholars responded: >> >> "So far over 100 of you have returned the form which designates >> $1.00 of your Paideuma subscription as dues to the Society. This >> group seems large enough to allow us to move on to the next step, >> which is to update the bylaws. So if you sent in your form, you will >> receive, some time in May, a copy of the old by-laws along with a >> set of proposed revisions and a ballot which you should return to >> Burton Hatlen, the secretary of the association. In June or July we >> will apply to the MLA for affiliate status. If the application is >> approved, we will have one or two sessions at the 1993 MLA >> convention." (Paideuma bulletin board 21 1/2). >> At the same time, Hatlen ensured that the society had two slots at >> the annual conference of the American Literature Association ? the >> first panel organised by the EPS was at the ALA conference of 1993. >> Hatlen announced: ?Anyone interested in participating in the 1993 >> convention can write to me. You need not be a EPS member to give a >> paper? (Paideuma bulletin board winter 21 3 1992). >> Participation in the MLA conventions was delayed until 1995 (Ahearn >> and Witemeyer 456). According to the amended by-laws, the society >> then got its first president: Hugh Witemeyer (1992-1997). He was >> followed by Barry Ahearn (1997-2001), Alec Marsh (2001-2013) and >> Roxana Preda (2013-). Burton Hatlen served as Secretary until 2008 >> when Demetres Tryphonopoulos took over. Alec and Demetres have run >> the society since Hatlen?s passing away that year ? they have had >> the help of Tim Redman and Ira Nadel. All four have consented to >> become members of a society Advisory Board ? they discuss and >> validate all new initiatives concerning the EPS. >> Regular panels at the MLA and ALA conferences have structured the >> society activity ever since 1993 and have constituted the main >> service that the EPS has brought to Pound scholars. Over the years, >> alliances with other societies, mainly those devoted to William >> Carlos Williams, James Joyce, and H.D., have enriched and >> diversified the palette of sessions. Here are some recent examples: >> Ezra Pound and the San Francisco Renaissance (ALA, 2006), Teaching >> Ezra Pound?s Poetry and Prose (ALA, 2009); Ezra Pound in H.D.?s Work >> (ALA 2012) Prosody in the Poetry of Ezra Pound and William Carlos >> Williams (MLA 2011); Ezra Pound and James Joyce: Connections and >> Disconnections (MLA 2012). >> In 1999, at Hugh Witemeyer?s suggestion, the society initiated its >> annual award for the best book of Ezra Pound scholarship. Along the >> years, the society thus honoured Alec Marsh, Margaret Fisher, Walter >> Baumann and Leon Surette, among others. The award is not financed >> out of the society dues (which are minimal) but out of private >> sponsorship. The recipient is announced at the MLA convention. In >> 2013 the society has added a prize for best article in Pound >> scholarship, which will be awarded next year for the first time at >> the ALA convention in Washington. >> In 2013, the society has also received the opportunity to >> participate with a regular panel at the Louisville conference. >> Starting with 2014, the EPS has an assured slot for this major >> annual event dedicated to 20th century literature in relation to the >> arts. Our panel for 2014 is called: Contributions to the Poetics of >> Ezra Pound?s Cantos: Epic-Image-Music. >> The Paideuma number for 2013 is dedicated to Burt Hatlen and is a >> memorial to his great work and service to both the Ezra Pound >> Society, as long-term Secretary and to the National Poetry >> Foundation, as its Director for eighteen years. In 2001, one of his >> initiatives made possible a greater definition of the profiles of >> both organisations: he decided to open up Paideuma to the poetry of >> American modernism more generally, retaining a substantial focus on >> Pound scholarship (Hatlen, letter to the EPS, June 15, 2001). This >> decision, while favoring the development of the NPF away from Pound >> studies strictly conceived, has proved problematic for scholars who >> would prefer to remain within the more circumscribed area of author >> research. >> The time has now come, I think, to reconsider the by-laws of 1992, >> to attune them to the situation of the scholarly community as it now >> stands, and to see how we can improve the functioning of our society. >> >> References: >> Ahearn, Barry and Hugh Witemeyer. ?The Ezra Pound Society.? >> Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook. Ed. Matthew Bruccoli. >> Detroit: Gale, 2001. 455-456. >> Bulletin Board Paideuma 8 1 (Spring 1979) >> Bulletin Board Paideuma 21 1-2 (Spring Fall 1992) >> Bulletin Board Paideuma 21 3 (Winter 1992) >> Hatlen, Burt. ?Carroll Terrell and Great American Poetry Wars.? >> Paideuma 26 2-3 (Fall/Winter1997): 33-62. >> Ezra Pound Society materials.pdf (compiled by Gail Sapiel) >> >> >> --The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in >> Scotland, with registration number SC005336. >> >> > > > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.