09-25-2023, 08:59 PM
Rowens,
I came back from New Mexico planning to re-read The Pisan Cantos. I started, but immediately came down with Covid, so for a week I couldn't read a thing.
As I began to come out of the Covid haze, I decided I'd had enough of Pound for a while. I wandered past my bookshelves and picked out John Berryman's The Dream Songs. It's a book I bought 30 years ago and there was a bookmark showing I'd attempted it at some point.
Anyway, I started it again. I immediately recognized it as a masterpiece. I was filled with the same kind of awe I used to get after the first few puffs of a marijuana joint, before cannabis was forbidden to me by the Powers That Be.
I'm about 80 songs into it now. I came here to record my new found scripture and saw that the last thing you wrote to me was to quote the song about Henry's pelt, so now I feel Confirmed.
Later,
TqB
I came back from New Mexico planning to re-read The Pisan Cantos. I started, but immediately came down with Covid, so for a week I couldn't read a thing.
As I began to come out of the Covid haze, I decided I'd had enough of Pound for a while. I wandered past my bookshelves and picked out John Berryman's The Dream Songs. It's a book I bought 30 years ago and there was a bookmark showing I'd attempted it at some point.
Anyway, I started it again. I immediately recognized it as a masterpiece. I was filled with the same kind of awe I used to get after the first few puffs of a marijuana joint, before cannabis was forbidden to me by the Powers That Be.
I'm about 80 songs into it now. I came here to record my new found scripture and saw that the last thing you wrote to me was to quote the song about Henry's pelt, so now I feel Confirmed.
Later,
TqB