ABC of Influence - Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition

Christopher Beach

University of California Press

1992

279 páginas

9h 18m

ISBN-13: 9780520075276

"This brilliantly particularizing work maps more usefully than any other I know the locating tradition of postmodern "New American Poetry" in all its persistent energies and relationships. Christopher Beach reads with exceptional clarity the multivalent track of Pound's influence, from Charles Olson to Edward Dorn, from Robert Duncan to Charles Bernstein. His is the first guide of such authority."--Robert Creeley "An American Pound tradition? Yes. And as Christopher Beach shows, it's most manifest in poets whose superficial resemblance to Pound (or to one another) can seem slight: the Zukofsky of "Anew," the Ed Dorn of "Slinger." That tradition is not imitation is only the most salient of the lessons offered by Beach's remarkable book."--Hugh Kenner