addition, Pound stresses the need for sincerity and
fluidity in poems (Cook, 2004).
Then we had Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978) who
wrote “A Statement for Poetry” in 1950. His work
has been compared to a “symphony…consonant
with his day”, He himself, emphasises that the
poem is a "design or construction" and a "technical
art" for "Everyday existence" (Cook, 2004).
Zukofsky also compares the poem to a machine of
words which has contributed intense records to
history. Both Zukofsky and Pound were early
forerunners of the beat generation and the
writings of both writers contain shamanic
elements. In “Ts’ai Chi’h” Pound states,
anticipating the shamanic revolution which was to
follow in some years to come “Christ follows
Dionysus” and in the final lines of part “III” when
he chants to Apollo (“Oh bright Apollo” etc…).
Here we see explicit shamanic elements which
were to find full flower in the beat revolution
which was to come. Louis Zukofsky anticipates
the visionary texts of the shamanic beats in "Siren
and Signal" circa 1929 when he states, rather
literally, "All the stars have filled the heavens,
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