re/ existing EP bio's ================ it's easy: never mention Tytell again. - CARPENTER is great [altho Will. Cookson of AGENDA/London (ed of SP) chose ANOTHER reviewer when it was out - not cause I'm German, but he said: Geoffrey Hill - acknowleged/great Brit. poet!!] had sd. - and tthen written - that Carpenter was NO GOOD. My very personal SALUTE is for JJ Wilhelm [<- and not - again! - cause of this German sounding last name....!!!): I'm just reading the middle one of his 3 volls ['cause it seems to having been easier, obviously, to having got the "Roots" and the "Tragic" here than get me the middle one covering 1908-25.. at last, here it is] ...What I think REALLY great in JJW is the news in the VERY SMALL details; and he seems to me to be the VERY first to CONNECT bio to work CONSEQUENTLY in a book you CD/ GIVE OUTSIDERS & they wd at least TOUCH it. Very simply (as far as I'm entitled to judge: WELL written!] Parentheisis: There is so much WASTE-OF-TIME-stuff around. The discussion whether hypertext cd be taken as a substitute for ideogram etc; the funny [!!!] association between HYPERTEXT & FASCISM [sorry, Pat - but anyway: May 25 - or what was it? - when you'll be a Dr. phil. - will be a date my PC REMEMBERS!] - it all SOUNDS good, but it is crap. Sorry. Sorry. VERY sorry: it's intelligents' people's childs' play. There are no DISCOVERIES, no NEWS about EP, and no "CHINESE" news anyway. Still: JJWilh.: Dante, Arn. Daniel. The Later Cantos [which was, WHEN IT CAME OUT] a great guide for me, for instance the Byzantium theme etc. And for what's remaining: Peter Stoicheff's great book [& Ron Bush in Ric Taylor's collection - all here, after all, in - re/ EP -"half savage country"...] JJW: I dig his STYLE. I do NOT find him in ANY way superficial [as was sd. here & there]. So, re/ EP bio's: - Chas Norman: Pioneer, just as Hugh K.'s book was back in '49/50 - Stock [but because of personal "warps" in his OWN biography not THAT dependable...] - Tytell: a crazy journalist. Forget it IMMEDIATELY! - Carp/: best - JJW: the three volls. - TOGETHER with Carp/ the best to date. best - & SORRY alex