Josephine,
in the ABC of Reading, Ezra Pound tells the aspiring poet that "Poetry ought
to be at least as well-written as prose." He had Flaubert in mind ("His
first Penelope was Flaubert . . .").
jd
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Joseph Duemer
School of Liberal Arts, 5750
Clarkson University
Potsdam NY 13699
315.268.3967
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Times are bad. Children no longer
Obey their parents, and everyone
Is writing a book.
[Cicero]
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