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"The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble."
- Peter S. Jennison
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 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 296 pages
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292711344
Release Date: Jan 6, 1974
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These letters, which have never been published, span the years 1912 to 1949 and record not only an important period in American and European literary history but also the development of Pound's aesthetic and poetic voice.
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"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
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Ezra Pound Reads
Read by Ezra Pound
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