Competition. Well there's you. C. On 11/24/2015 10:45 AM, Joe wrote: > I looked this woman up. I guess your conversations were on the Pound List, which, for some reason, I'm no longer subscribed to. I haven't read anything by her, but I assume she's the typical academic feeding on the corpus of Pound. Socrates pointed out that there are sharks and then there are sharks. I agree with you about the past 40 years, but you've had very little competition. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alphaville Books <[log in to unmask]> > To: EPOUND-L <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Tue, Nov 24, 2015 10:07 am > Subject: Poundian poets > > Dear Roxana Preda, > > I know its been some months since our discussion of Pound and poets who > worked in the Pound tradition. At that time, after a cursory look you > characterized my work as being like that of a "shark". I simply took > this to mean that like a shark my work never sleeps/rests. > > You were utterly correct. That work, Tale of the Tribe, was written to > purposely overwhelm the reader as 20th century man was overwhelmed by > events and their apocalyptic tinge. > > But more to the point my work, up until my David Jones inspired > monologues, was written with the intention of utilizing techniques > derived form the Cantos. Those techniques include an attempt at a grand > melding of cultures and times, juxtaposition, citation, use of > historical and factual data and events, critically tackling disciplines > e.g. Pound/economics without fear of 'expert' censure, lyricism etc. all > of which are operable in Pound's and my work. > > In my neck of the woods, we have a Poundian great chain of poetic being > that runs though Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Mel > Tolson, Basil Bunting, David Jones, Ed Dorn, Peter Dale Scott, John > Matthias, Joe Brennan and myself, all of whom feature prominently in > FlashPoint magazine. > > When my wife and I went to the National Archives to bring to light > heretofore unpublished Mel Tolson works, we confirmed that he > specifically wanted to out Poundian Pound and felt he could because of > his broader historical outlook. That's the kind of ambition we seek. > > I would hazard that my work is more Poundian in the strictest sense than > any work done in the last 40 years. > > Kind regards, > Carlo Parcelli > FlashPoint Magazine >