In for a Pound

If we can get part of a Canto of Pound’s—and if I find it good which is highly probable—I don’t see why we should shun it. The energies of words are hard to find—I should want my issue to be entirely a matter of the energies of words.
—Louis Zukofsky to Harriet Monroe, from Peter O'Leary's article on Poetry's 1931 "Objectivist" issue, at the Poetry Foundation.

Spinal tap

The Light Reader—who first suggested this spinal contest—has two mini-narratives up at her home base, which I am posting here by kind permission!





(Didn't Nabokov say to read with the spine, not the skull?)