Ezra Pound

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• The allusions are swift, the collisions reminiscent of the ‘ply over ply’ technique of Ezra Pound's Cantos, but to more disjunctive ends.
• (Taste, July 9): A bitter debate surrounded the announcement of the Bollingen Prize to the profascist and anti-Semitic Ezra Pound for" The Pisan Cantos, "judged by a panel of highly regarded poets to represent the best poetry of 1948. Art Stands Apart From the Artist
• She's one of the original beatniks, a personal correspondent with Ezra Pound - her list of accomplishments just goes on and on.
• By chance, Ch'ien makes this statement in a discussion of the Chinese translations of Ezra Pound, which may explain why the sentence is primarily in German and why the essay is larded with quotations from other European languages.
• Those who still admire Ezra Pound's pretentious poetry will presumably enjoy listening to him reciting while thumping on a kettledrum.
• So here are stills and posters from Ken Russell's 1972 film adaptation of Ede's book and the sculptor's portrait of poet Ezra Pound, champion of modernism and instigator of vorticism – a movement getting some overdue re-evaluation at Tate Britain in June. This week's new exhibitions
• The poet Ezra Pound, a central figure of Modernism, is a case in point: while his fascination with Chinese writing spawned the ideogrammic method, the mimicry and gestures of the 'primitive languages in Africa' would never become more than a mere curiosity (ABC of Reading, 21). Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• There were poets who lurched words across the page ornate words that had women bound, bah! bah! said Ezra Pound, ‘I have sung women in three cities, But it is all the same; and I will sung of the sun’.
• Promoted by the fascist Ezra Pound, this new poetry without meter or rhyme swept literary Europe and America in the period leading up to the war.
• In Ezra Pound's translation of Li Po's "The River-Merchant's Wife," we are moved by the thousand-year-old voice of a young bride in China: "At fifteen, I stopped scowling, / I desired my dust to be mingled with yours / Forever and forever, and forever. How Memorization Makes Words Live