ARK is clearly a modernist enterpri...

ARK is clearly a modernist enterprise, influenced in its edifice by Pound's Cantos. It is a monumental metrical composition completed in one hundred sections (like cantos), it is inclusive in ambition, and it is collagist in execution.

And however it differs profoundly from Pound's work in that it is not didactic. It is many times informative in content, but it is in this way with a push of wonder--implying "how extraordinary this is!" rather than "let's change things around here!" It is in fact barely discursive, barely of the intellect. although words are such that they cannot completely