Read Bunting, you people. Read Bunting. Also read @cspaide @NewYorker @aldaily @Don_Share http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-improbable-life-and-prescient-poetry-of-basil-bunting …
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Replying to @accommodatingly @Don_Share
Keep Calm and Read Basil Bunting
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All meme-ing aside, he's the best Poundian, isn't he? (Maybe even better than Pound)
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Replying to @evankindley @Don_Share
less influential, less "original," but way better. I once published a poem that says exactly that
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Certainly more pleasurable. The debt to Pound is so clear I have a little trouble saying "better," though
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I think for me it's Pound > Bunting > Zukofsky > Oppen > Olson > everybody else
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If you are ranking by pleasure rather than inventiveness or influence, Bunting > Niedecker > £ > Oppen > Olson
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I like use of £ for Pound. Reminds me of artist formerly known as Prince
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