It's great to hear--and it's quite amazing to me!-- that there are so many young people, not necessarily in college, who are taking to Pound. I can't figure out how that could be happening--simply because of EP's difficulty; enough of a turn-off even for most college profs. But throughout my career it's always amazed me where Pound aficionados turn up. When I lived in Spain there was a Spanish sub-administrator who worked for the World Bank who was addicted to EP (in English!)--and then there was my English- speaking Spanish friend Miguel, who was studying to be a Merchant Marine officer, who could quote passages to me from the Pisans. Anyway, I like being amazed. ==DP At 07:44 PM 1/27/98 -0500, you wrote: >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) > 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]