some out-of-context notes i wrote in the margins of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book

[illiterati]

he is eZra Pound
who is eZra Pound
in spirit

now we are all
eZ Pound—

the collective of writers
will have the form of a school
but not be one--

communal commitment to
comprehending & constructing
a lineage of texts,
thru which we will pass
& emerge much brighter

commitment to comprehend, together
a lineage of modernist
thru New American
thru Language (& Conceptual)
& on to our own new selves

& record/articulate this process
thru critical writing
philosophy of language
aesthetics
applied poetics
literary history

& also composition, together,
of great age-changing masterworks—

commitment to mutual
readership, engagement,
publication & glad
coterie—

a family
a canon

*

i will be
a school
for you

if you will be
a school
for me

[WolfLarsen]

I like that it's different. Something unusual always makes me happy.