i'm a hack poet who's never been to college. i don't drink (or use any drugs for that matter). i hate the computer, but love to use it for resources like this (which, dispite my tone, i am enjoying so far). -all- of my friends enjoy pound. we range from philosopher/poet types, to painters, to silly punk kids. we read him, talk about him, are influeced, etc. few of us are in school. all of us read. jeff. >By the way, when I facetiously mention >"the twenty-nothing and thirty- >nothing generation that has hardly even heard of >[EP]," I am certainly not implicating literate >grad students like Erin T. but rather the whole >[de-]generation of audiophilic, bibliophobic >digerati who are more likely to learn via the >Net--which is our current substitute for >Authority and even God--than from old-fart, my- >generational media like paper. > >Dan P > >> >>Dan Pearlman thought out loud: >> >>>>if the Cantos were to become available >>in hypertext format on the 'Net (infinite Borgesian >>links, etc.) we would see a tremendous upsurge in >>interest in EP among the twenty-nothing and thirty- >>nothing generation that has hardly even heard of >>him. ND might be smart to offer, let's say, the >>first 30 Cantos in this format on the Net for >>free and hope to rope in buyers of a CD-hypertext >>version of the whole work. Maybe even the book >>itself.<< >> >>Perfect. I hope they start tomorrow. I reckon we got the 20th century >>wrong. We might as well line up again at the starting gate. >> >>regards, >> >>Harold Rhenisch >>[log in to unmask] >> >Dan Pearlman >Department of English >University of Rhode Island >Kingston, RI 02881 > >[Latest book: novel, BLACK FLAMES, White Pine Press, 1997] > >Tel.: (home) 401 453-3027 > (office) 401 874-4659 >Fax: 401 874-2580 >Internet: [log in to unmask] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only eyes in all heads to be looked out of -charles olson, from "letter 6" (of the maximus poems)