Rudy Carrera

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• ¡Aiya!: For the seven lakes, and by no man these verses:Rain; empty river; a...

  watchoutchadbites:

  For the seven lakes, and by no man these verses:
  Rain; empty river; a voyage,
  Fire from frozen cloud, heavy rain in the twilight
  Under the cabin roof was one lantern.
  The reeds are heavy; bent;
  and the bamboos speak as if weeping.
  
  Autumn moon; hills rise about lakes
  against sunset
  Evening is…

  02/22/12

• richards home: A Summary Ezra Pound - WWII Radio Speeches

  richardshomex:

  A Summary Ezra Pound - WWII Radio Speeches
  No other American—and only a few individuals throughout the world—has left such a strong mark on so many aspects of the twentieth century: from poetry to economics, from theater to philosophy, from politics to pedagogy, from Provençal to Chinese. If…

  02/22/12

• • ᴥ •: On "Economic Democracy" (Ezra Pound)

  tsuei:

  I’ve been having lots of fun trawling through the treasure trove that is the Modernist Journals Project. There are so many things to love about this project: from the very fact that they exist, to their design and type, to the people who wrote for those journals, to how well they have all been…

  02/22/12

• I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman -
  I have detested you long enough.
  I come to you as a grown child
  Who has had a pig-headed father;
  I am old enough now to make friends.
  It was you that broke the new wood,
  Now is a time for carving.
  We have one sap and one root -
  Let there be commerce between us.

  Ezra Pound, “A Pact”  (via imaginedcities)

  02/22/12

• Thoughts: Modern Poetry

  reetuh:

  ….when reading Ezra Pound

  and sharing that experience

  it’s like WE

  knew a cherished secret

  that others didn’t.

  Today in class I fell in love with what Pound began.

  02/22/12