in all this talk about pound in the academy, it's interesting to note: the jack kerouac school of disembodies poetics (at the naropa institue in colorado) has offered classes called: ezra pound. and: the cantos of ezra pound. i guess it helps that the school was started by poets (allen ginsburg / anne waldman) and is still run by anne. jeff. >><snip> >> > I hardly think that the reason younger scholars and stdents of >>literature have "hardly even heard of [Pound]" is because the Cantos aren't >>available on the Web. While electronic access might be convenient, it isn't >>preventing students and aspiring scholars from reading EP. Perhaps a more >>likely reason is his conspicuous absence from the classroom--whether because >>his poetry is "too difficult" or because many instructors find his politics >>distasteful or inappropriate for the classroom. ><snip> > >This is true. There are professors who refuse to teach Pound. In my >graduate school, though Pound has been on the syllabus in many Modernist >courses, he has often not had a big place. In one case, my 1-hour >presentation was the only coverage he got; in another the professor asked me >to stand in and teach Pound (2 sessions). We have courses offered in single >authors, from Chaucer to Morrison, and in single books (Ulysses, for >example), but there has never been a whole course offered here in Pound. >Those of us who want to do serious work on him often have to do so alone or >with minimal help. Hooray for the Pound list! > >Patricia > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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)