"He made mistakes and we have to take the good part of him, just as he did with others.--Mary De Rachewiltz"De Rachewiltz has since fought a lifelong battle to separate Pound the poet from Pound the fascist and antisemite, which is why the emergence of CasaPound – now boasting 5,000 members – is so painful. … Continue reading Ezra Pound’s daughter fights to wrest the renegade poet’s legacy from fascists
Category: Cantos
Imagism in the Cantos and Vorticism in the Tate
"These lines are followed by a sequence of identity shifts involving a seal, the daughter of Lir, and other figures associated with the sea: Eleanor of Aquitaine who, through a pair of Homeric epithets that echo her name, shifts into Helen of Troy, Homer with his ear for the "sea surge", the old men of … Continue reading Imagism in the Cantos and Vorticism in the Tate
Q is for Quotes: from Canto LXXXVII by Ezra Pound redirected to the World Banking Cabals of 2008.
Was De Molay making loans without interest?Church councils bumbling, Fanatics do not understand interest.-----infantilism increasing till our time,attention to outlet, no attension to source,That is: the problum of issue.Who issues it? How?-----"Pity to stamp save weight."Always the undertow, gold-bugs against ANY order,Seeking the common (as Ari says)Practice for squeeze.-----"Nowt better than a share (Mencius)nor worse … Continue reading Q is for Quotes: from Canto LXXXVII by Ezra Pound redirected to the World Banking Cabals of 2008.
LS is for Li Sao and Canto CXIII
for Bob."And the road upper apple-boughs mostly grass-coveredAnd the olives to windward Kalenda MajaLi Sao, Li Sao, for sorrowBut there is something intelligent in the cherry-stone--Ezra Pound, Canto CXIII.LI SAO by Qu YuanI cultivate plenty of fragrant thoroughwortAnd plant a multitude of orchidWith ligusticum and sweet grass on the ridgesAnd inter cropped wild ginger and … Continue reading LS is for Li Sao and Canto CXIII
A is for Awake: FW title plays
Acrillic FigaThe following is a fresh poem i just spat out, which is fourteen anagrams of Finnegans wake. After that are quotes i collected and posted at maybelogic academy six months ago titled "3000 years of psychedelic poetry, Finnegans wake and the Cantos" Read them! And read them again.....Finnegan wakes, awake eng finns,finnegan askew, a … Continue reading A is for Awake: FW title plays