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 [log in to unmask] http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest books: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Wednesdays' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html to rid me of the ugh in thought i spell anew weave the world out of the or binary bpNichol