Author: Jedediah Smith

Jedediah Smith writes poetry and fiction without the support of any university, grant, fellowship, foundation, medal, award, or academy. While he taught introductory composition at several community colleges as an adjunct, he has never been part of a creative writing program or even a teacher with a full-time position. He is not a member of any historically under-represented / currently over-represented group but has been under-represented during his individual history of six decades. He holds wildly unpopular views and expresses them in heretical forms.

Kerouac Connection No. 28 Summer 1998, Beat Generation literary zine

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Vintage: Kerouac Connection No. 28 Summer 1998, Beat Generation literary zine Condition: Like New “Unsold item from editor’s collection” Price: US $10.00 The Kerouac Connection was a literary zine publishing articles and essays about Jack Kerouac as well as Beat Generation related ephemera. First published in England by Dave Moore, it later moved to the …

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Review of The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound by Ira B. Nadel

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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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Review of Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry by T.S. Eliot

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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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