> What do you think: can it be that in ten >years our kids are going to regard Pound the way young people regarded Pope >in, say, 1808, and for the same intelligible and not serious reasons? > I don't think it will take ten years. My son is sixteen, writes fiction and poetry, reads Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Burroughs. He thinks Pound is a fossil. Or worse, a crazy boring old Fascist fossil that his dad reads. But even factoring out the generational static between us, I think Pound will continue to be an acquired taste as the years roll along. I notice that my son and his friends favor **short** poems and fiction. I think perhaps television and MTV, digested by my son in large quantities, may have worked against EP (or Stevens, or even Whitman) in this regard. And strangely enough, they all loathe language poetry... Joe Ahearn Rancho Loco Press Dallas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~