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Page 107
... reader comes to the poems only in the context of Pound's Personae , his collected poems , and often at the expense of historical perspective . It is not my intention to speculate on Pound's forma mentis ( that I leave to the wizardry of ...
... reader comes to the poems only in the context of Pound's Personae , his collected poems , and often at the expense of historical perspective . It is not my intention to speculate on Pound's forma mentis ( that I leave to the wizardry of ...
Page 206
... reader into a vast network of allusion . The haiku itself is spare , clean , swift as a boning knife . The melopoeia combines a , o , and u sounds : tsu , gu in line 1 ; tsu and yu in lines 2 and 3 ; the tsu sound is very quick , almost ...
... reader into a vast network of allusion . The haiku itself is spare , clean , swift as a boning knife . The melopoeia combines a , o , and u sounds : tsu , gu in line 1 ; tsu and yu in lines 2 and 3 ; the tsu sound is very quick , almost ...
Page 218
... reader not only what to say , but how to say it in a particular rhythm in order to understand , through the saying of the words , more than the words themselves say . Some days go by . Eventually , copies of the book move from a ...
... reader not only what to say , but how to say it in a particular rhythm in order to understand , through the saying of the words , more than the words themselves say . Some days go by . Eventually , copies of the book move from a ...
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The Necessity to Speak | 3 |
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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