BBC Radio 3, Sunday, 20 Jul 2008, 21:30."To mark 2008's 50th anniversary of his release, historian Sean Street investigates how Ezra Pound, one of the 20th century's most important poets, was accused of treason by the US Government and held for years in a mental hospital after he made a series of anti-American and anti-Semitic … Continue reading BBC Radio 3: The Trial Of Ezra Pound
Category: Cantos
All powers of Europe
For my part thought that AmericansHad been embroiled in European wars long enoughEasy to see thatFrance and England wd/ try to embroil us Obvious that all powers of Europe will be continually at manoeuvreto work us into their real or imaginary balancesof power; J.A 1782 FISHERIES.--Ezra Pound, Canto LXV. Pg 377.J.A = John Adams
Pilot Plan for Concrete Poetry (1958)
Pilot Plan for Concrete Poetry (1958)Augusto de Campos, Decio Pignatari, Haroldo de Campos: BrazilFrom Concrete Poetry: A World View, 1968, ed Mary Ellen Solt RELATED RESOURCES: Haroldo de Campos in UbuWeb Historical Augusto de Campos in UbuWeb Historical Decio Pignatari in UbuWeb Historical "Concrete Poetry: A World View : Brazil" in UbuWeb Papers "The Imperative … Continue reading Pilot Plan for Concrete Poetry (1958)
Email To The Tribe (A Youtube Playlist Refresher)
Email to the tribe is my research class into the tale of the tribe, paying tribute to the last great work of Dr Robert Anton Wilson.… --Steve Fly Fly On The Tale Of The Tribe: A Rollercoaster Ride With Robert Anton Wilson by Steven James Pratt Link: http://a.co/gOGNKyV
Ezra Pound and Film adaptations of fragments from the Cantos
Hamilton celebrates Ezra Pound’s 128th Birthday By Max Newman '16October 31, 2013 Forum on Image and Language and Motion (F.I.L.M.) celebrated Hamilton alumnus and late poet Ezra Pound’s 128th birthday last Wednesday with a night full of history and experimental film adaptations. Associate Professor of English Steve Yao opened the discussion with a detailed history … Continue reading Ezra Pound and Film adaptations of fragments from the Cantos
Liffissippi River to Joyce’s Poundland
...and when the mode of themusic changes the walls of the city shake a perspective from relative place humbled individual to their partin universe and othersingle individuated mind in timegathering tales and knick knacks of history into a trick bagdo you feel melody and riddim’ in verse word sound image sandwichesattention to source to _____ … Continue reading Liffissippi River to Joyce’s Poundland
Quotes from Ezra Pound Guide To Kulchur
I am currently reading Ez's guide again and find it very stimulating with great ball of genius striking in the direction of the 2008-2013 global recession, music, painting, sculture and poetry. --Steve fly Full text at Scribd.Quotes from...EZRA POUNDGUIDE TO KULCHUR“To put it another way: it does not matter a two-penny damn whether you load … Continue reading Quotes from Ezra Pound Guide To Kulchur
Ezra Pound and the tale of the tribe in 2013.
Ezra Pound and the tale of the tribe in 2013.Today, Easter Sunday 31st March 2013, I am here at home in Amsterdam, switching between facebook, blogger, youtube and Wikipedia, and my copy of Pound’s Cantos. And I cannot resist pulling out some examples of Pounds relevance, coloured by the texts analysis by Pound/Joyce scholar Dr … Continue reading Ezra Pound and the tale of the tribe in 2013.
TTOTT 2013: Go git’ yr’ pens and pads
TTOTT 2013 by Steven 'fly' Pratt. Some of my readers, and a small portion of friends may be familiar with Robert Anton Wilson and his tale of the tribe, but, alas i imagine that most are not. If you stumbled upon this writing, and are out of facebook well done, I dearly wish you might … Continue reading TTOTT 2013: Go git’ yr’ pens and pads
1922 year 1 of MODERNISM (Book review)
A new age dawned on October 30 1921, said Ezra Pound, who claimed that the Christian Era ended on the day that James Joyce finished the final paragraph of Ulysses. Three months later Joyce’s book was published on the palindromic date of 2/2/22 – his 40th birthday --http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/historybookreviews/9712690/Constellation-of-Genius-by-Kevin-Jackson-review.html