Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 04:34:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Breath <cwduff-AT-alcor.concordia.ca>
Subject: Re: paralogy and the Vortex



	More more more please! Tzara by the way had been a sympathizer of
the proletariat since the Dada days. Once while giving a talk about the
dada "movement" to worker's meeting he actually spoke in very lucid and
clear language so the workers in Paris could understand him. Apparently he
was very well received. And by the way his original name was Sami
Rosenstock and Ezra Pound shied away from the French literary scene as he
grew more right and they went more left. ANd I agree that many levels
operate in consciousnee andthat one can be in one sense both left and
right. On a preconscious level our interests may very well be with the
left, and on the unoconscious level of investments we might be invested in
a more right wing libido-ego-super-ego formation. This might be one reason
why Pound for one was so blatanly contradictory. That is to say he was a
"leftist" in his innovativeness in poetry, and a right winger in his
politics. Berstein makes the point finally that  the Pound legacy inthe
longrun was more accpetable tothe "canon" than the dadaists/ For instance
Tzara was never accepted in theAmerican/English Canon because of his
poetry and his politics. After all he was a marxist and a member of the
party for almost all his life.


	CD.