In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
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