Introduction. Tailor-Made Traditions? “Pound-H.D.-Williams” and a Century’s Worth of US Experimental Verse

Abstract

Thought draws the imaginary of the past: a knowledge becoming. This Anglophonia/Caliban special issue focusing on U.S. modernist and contemporary experimental poetry revolves around an unnamed fulcrum. The barely visible node making up the paradoxical crossing point and blind spot of this collection of essays is the silently yet endlessly whirling vortex of Ezra Pound. In modernism’s image, he is “what I can, and must perforce, call a VORTEX, from which, and through which, and into which, ide...