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Monday, May 31, 2004
  Please.


"It is, at this point, no longer possible to establish one's poetic legitimacy by being more experimental or irreverent toward the tradition than your predecessors; you can't go further than those guys have already gone. Ezra Pound's command that poets must 'make it new!' was itself, once, a new idea. But by now, all the new ideas are really kind of old."

I think I got dumber just reading this. Consider yourselves warned.