On Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:02:55 -0800 wrote... > what does Kenner talk about? FYI: >Went to Vancouver on the weekend and happened upon Hugh Kenner's CBC Massey >lecture transcript now in book form called "The Elsewhere Community". It's >published in Ontario by House of Anansi Press Ltd & sells for $14.95 Can. >Here's the address of the publisher for those who may be interested: > >House of Anansi Press Limited >1800 Steeles Avenue West >Concord, Ontario >Canada >L4K 2P3 >They also have a website: http://www.the-wire.com/irwin/anansi/ > >I remember the interest in Kenner's lecture on this list a few months back >& thought there may be a few of you interested in this info. Unfortunately, >I didn't get a chance to hear the lecture, so the book was a pleasant >surprise as it peered at me from the bookstore's shelf. There is a >wonderful section where Kenner recalls his first meeting with Pound at St. >Elizabeth's in the company of Marshall McLuhan: "We presented our >credentials at the office, saw our names entered in a book labelled 'Ezra >Pound's Company,' then were ushered up two floors to the Chestnut Ward. >Pound had recently been promoted from the Dangerously Insane to, so to >speak, the Slightly Cracked; that was the news our New York informant was >responding to when he'd told us Pound could now be visited." > >Jim > > Robert E. Kibler Department of English University of Minnesota [log in to unmask] fortunatus et ille, deos qui novit agrestis, Panaque Silvanumque senem Nymphasque sorores.