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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry
by Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound
by Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound
This book argues that poets might exploit the analogies between the Chinese language, which is ideogrammatic, and poetry, which employs images. While this is a useful notion for poets in whose work images are dominant, in fact poetry is about music and wordplay as well. Thus, while the book’s argument resonates with the work of poets like Ezra Pound or H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), it is more limited with respect to the work of poets like Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, Christian Bok or Henry Rollins.
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