ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition

"This brilliantly particularizing work maps more usefully than any other I know the locating tradition of postmodern "New American Poetry" in all its persistent energies and relationships. Christopher Beach reads with exceptional clarity the multivalent track of Pound's influence, from Charles Olson to Edward Dorn, from Robert Duncan to Charles Bernstein. His is the first guide of such authority."--Robert Creeley "An American Pound tradition? Yes. And as Christopher Beach shows, it's most manifest in poets whose superficial resemblance to Pound (or to one another) can seem slight: the Zukofsky ofAnew, the Ed Dorn ofSlinger. That tradition is not imitation is only the most salient of the lessons offered by Beach's remarkable book."--Hugh KennerBeach, Christopher is the author of 'ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition' with ISBN 9780520075276 and ISBN 0520075277.