Apologies for bringing this dead horse back to life, but I have one
last thing to say.
To me, it isn't a failure for the wedges of prose to sit undigested by
the poetic technique. I don't know if Pound consciously wrote in a
collage style, but to me his cantos are the poetic equivalent of an
assemblage. So to me, it isn't strange; it's mirroring fragmented,
undigested reality, bringing together different representations of
reality and housing them under a cantos. You can do this with images;
it's more radical with representations. Pound's Cantos are the
equivalent of Rauschenberg's assemblages, Charles Ives music. Reality
has been fragmented, and remains fragmented. Attempts to put Humpty
Dumpty back together again a la Arvo Part amount to mere nostalgia.
So I guess we agree to disagree.
Roger
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Douglas Barbour
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> Depends, but her point was that he got that material, & the concept
> that such material belonged there, back into poetry; many since have
> found ways to, indeed, make it work there (as did he, at his best)....
>
> Doug
>
> On 27-Mar-08, at 10:02 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
> > I don't feel, pace Perloff, that Pound's imagistic and rhythmic
> > techniques
> > succeeded in digesting the gobbets and wedges of prose content in The
> > Cantos.
>
>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
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> to rid me of
> the ugh in
> thought
> i spell anew
> weave the world
> out of the or
> binary
>
> bpNichol
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