"dichten=condensare" - Ezra Pound
Read his account of the process of composition of "In A Station of the
Metro". Though that arch-imagist poem seems positively baroque compared
with Aram Saroyan's on a rather similar subject:
eyeye
Barry Alpert
PS. For further elaboration on related matters:
<http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/of-my-reluctance-in-1970-to-
include-bob.html>
|