In some ways that was a terrific idea, Pierre. I remember coming across
the lack of the poem & thinking that it made sense (also knew it was
due to cost), because in some ways the poem is for most readers of
poetry, already there; we've read it, studied it perhaps, & by going to
look it up one was perhaps lead to pay more attention than might
otherwise be the case.
But the poem can still hit, & perhaps there are still young readers (if
there are any readers any more) who will find that poem & suddenly find
that poetry isn't boring as it had been the few times a poem was taught
in highschool....
Doug
On 29-May-07, at 6:05 AM, Pierre Joris wrote:
> It's more about the problem of publishing the poem: when Jerry
> Rothenberg & I were putting together the first vol of POEMS FOR THE
> MILLENNIUM, we had wanted to include a section of the Waste Land. The
> price Faber & Faber had asked for 4 pages of the work of David Jones
> was do ridiculously above what we could afford (like a huge chunk of
> the budget for permissions for the whole book) that we didn't even
> bother asking them for Eliot rights. So Jones & Eliot have tombeaux in
> the book, but no poems. -- Pierre
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