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¡Aiya!: For the seven lakes, and by no man these verses:Rain; empty river; a...
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…
richards home: A Summary Ezra Pound - WWII Radio Speeches
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…
• ᴥ •: On "Economic Democracy" (Ezra Pound)
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…
I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman -Ezra Pound, “A Pact” (via imaginedcities)
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.
….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.
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