News at Eleven: [Robert] Kelly: Yes, by the time

I was out of high school I found Guide to Kulchur, they called it in those days. The ABC of Reading was up to task. I used to carry the Cantos around. Eliot’s "The Wasteland" was particularly helpful to people at my age because it was all about opening and fragmentation. One did not see, or one could see but did not care too much about the deep quest for order and quote, civilization, that lay underneath "The Wasteland." One could hear the cry but what one saw was this dispersal of images gathered together, or as Eliot said, "These fragments have I shored against my ruin."

from The Brooklyn Rail: Robert Kelly with John Yau, David Levi Strauss, and Phong Bui

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