Vintage: Kerouac Connection No. 30 Fall 2000, Beat Generation literary zine Condition: Like New “Unsold item from editor's collection” Price: US $10.00

I not I said the fly my name … Jose Jimenez I am Michael Caine Mondo Cane contain multitudes for we are many ye princes keep watching the watchtower am are have been will be ontlogically copula I AM THAT I AM a wordman a birdman AM I THAT AM I eat, drink: arise and …

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The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound by Ira B. NadelMy rating: 3 of 5 starsThis short book does provide an introduction to Pound and his work. And Nadel is a reputable scholar of obvious erudition. Nonetheless, the text feels like it has been inexpertly condensed from a larger, more comprehensive work. There are numerous repetitions …

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Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry by T.S. EliotMy rating: 3 of 5 starsAn important work of early Poundian criticism, this essay makes a strong case for understanding the poet's reworking of traditional meters. Eliot examines several representative poems from Pound's early books, which mostly fall into the category of translations and imitations . While …

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The Panjandrum of Pints proverbs       “Wisdom calls out in the street, She lifts her voice on the square       and the level” to Pepkin who replies, When I was a child I smelt       as a child could taste the difference between green and blue       – “How long will fools hate knowledge?” I …

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