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James Galvin’s Later Poems

Friday, May 2nd, 2003
I’ve struggled through the final section of James Galvin’s Resurrection Update, the poems published in 1995 and 1996. Some of that is probably due to a cold, but I’ve done some of my best reading while home in bed with a cold. I suspect it has more to do with a shift in [...]

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A Little Dusting and Furniture Moving

Saturday, May 3rd, 2003
Rather than spending my day pleasantly reading poetry, I decided I finally had to do something about updating links and applying the code to add comments to my archives that Dorothea so kindly wrote after my recent request. The reality is that the way I navigate the web has changed considerably in the recent past. [...]

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A Look at Early Ezra Pound

Monday, May 5th, 2003
When first introduced to T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound many years ago in college, I could find little that I liked in Eliot’s works, though I bought The Complete Poems and Plays, and nothing in Pound’s poems to even justify buying even a single one of his works. My attitude towards Pound was not improved any [...]

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Pound’s Pact with Whitman

Tuesday, May 6th, 2003
Although I admit I never connected Pound with Whitman until I re-read his poetry, Pound does adapt Whitman’s style in some interesting ways. As many critics have pointed out Pound was quite ambivalent about Whitman, as can be seen in: PACT I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman- I have detested you long enough. I come to [...]

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