File this under the category of things I shouldn’t say aloud. Opinions I’ve been crucified (metaphorically) for having. I don’t like pie. Or free jazz. I don’t care for The Beatles. Salinger irks me. Not a fan of Junot Diaz. Still trying to figure out what is worth reading in Whitman. And Pound. First section – untitled, “The Tree” to “Au Jardin” “—the thing is banal.” Pound says to Williams of the fourth poem in Personae, and so far as […]

Categories: Poetry, Reading Journal • Tags: ezra pound, modernism, personae, poetry, reading journal