One Way Or Another, All The Poets

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Pound Had Argued - And Eliot Had Helped Him Prove - That A Poem Could Be Sustained By Memorable Moments. Olson Proved That It Could Be Sustained By Unmemorable Ones, Provided That The Texture Of The Accumulated Jottings Avoided The Sound Of Failed Poetry.

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