Word: disjecta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...salons, Poet Jean Cocteau, to work on the sets and costumes. The motifs he encountered there inspired a series of stout, monumentalized "neoclassical" compositions (33-35). From then on, Picasso had a repertory for his Arcadia: the vine-wreathed gods and nymphs, the Minotaurs and classic busts, the disjecta membra of antiquity that he was to superbly transmute in the Vollard etchings of 1932 and return to, at intervals, for the rest of his life...
...Pound was only partly right. Poetry did need to escape from its iambic prison, but not break its neck in the attempt. It is high time this pseudo poetry of disjecta membra was put in its place, as you have done in the fine peroration of the article's last two paragraphs...