To be honest, I can't remember which poems of Pound's we read - the class was several years ago - but I vividly remember slogging through a whoooole lot of stuff that I kept having to skip to the footnotes on. Lots and lots and lots of footnotes, but the damned thing still didn't make a whole lot of sense.
Millay and Boland, then! I'll see what I've got in the collections I have, since they tend to have good footnotes, and then check out the internet after that.
Yeah, I tried (ages and ages ago) to read it straight, and... gave up pretty darned quick. Footnotes are a very good thing.
Perhaps there was really excellent air conditioning in the warehouse they filmed in.
I wish I could believe that, but, well, AC costs. On the other hand, it's far more common in Cali than in my area, so maybe there's hope!
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Date: 2010-08-12 09:33 pm (UTC)Millay and Boland, then! I'll see what I've got in the collections I have, since they tend to have good footnotes, and then check out the internet after that.
Yeah, I tried (ages and ages ago) to read it straight, and... gave up pretty darned quick. Footnotes are a very good thing.
Perhaps there was really excellent air conditioning in the warehouse they filmed in.
I wish I could believe that, but, well, AC costs. On the other hand, it's far more common in Cali than in my area, so maybe there's hope!