![]() ![]() I let my eye glance thru this world of language and rhythm, skipping what I didn’t know, or could not decipher, to the next line and the next. the grumpy but necessary ABC of Reading) – I decided to read the Cantos cover to cover. Not having a large sense of a scholarly lifetime ahead, yet attracted to Pound’s rhythms and seriousness and poetics (i.e. ![]() Even a cursory glance at the monster revealed its epic demand: a life time of study, as they say. ![]() I was intimidated by their epic length, – this 800 page complex mix/collage asking for a knowledge of foreign and ancient languages, an ability to read Egyptian and Chinese ideographics, and that a reader know world history, art history, obscure political, social, and economic dimensions. As a university student, I remember staring at Ezra Pound’s Cantos for a long while before reading them. ![]()
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