tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post267178157044138428..comments2024-03-28T14:02:00.871-07:00Comments on RAWIllumination.net: When Ezra helped JamesCleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-25680525554430412632013-12-16T14:26:23.550-08:002013-12-16T14:26:23.550-08:00I told RAW my then-current practice (c.2004?) was ...I told RAW my then-current practice (c.2004?) was to read a Canto straight; consult Terrell, Makin or Cookson (all wrote books of annotations); read the Canto again; then for a fourth reading read it stoned. <br /><br />He said he thought that was an excellent strategy.<br /><br />A great proto-Tweet?:<br />The apparition of these faces in the crowd;<br />Petals on a wet, black bough.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-55797716690273255092013-12-16T14:15:23.445-08:002013-12-16T14:15:23.445-08:00Pound still has his readers and admirers, myself a...Pound still has his readers and admirers, myself among them. It’s poetry itself that has faced a declining readership. People don't, and never have, liked difficult stuff, and its also true that they prefer stories to fact. A close reading of Pound’s long and difficult work <i>The Cantos</i> would do wonders for clearing out the heads of RAW fans.fyreflyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03567375730311004673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-81029703926537224392013-12-16T03:01:30.859-08:002013-12-16T03:01:30.859-08:00Pound did the same for Hemingway, ee cummings, Rob...Pound did the same for Hemingway, ee cummings, Robert Frost, HD, Williams, James Dickey, Eliot, and many, many others. <br /><br />At a very early age Pound looked at the landscape of Western poetry and declared a revolution was in order. He was successful. His peculiar madness and embrace of fascist ideas (although he never joined to fascist party) has put him on the contemporary Index.<br /><br />If he hadn't deluded himself into thinking Mussolini was like Jefferson...I used to think he'd be read more now, but lately I've wondered. People don't seem to like the DIFFICULT much at all.<br /><br />Now I'll go read the Gioia piece to see where I've been redundant.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.com