Broookline Adult Ed lectures and events May 28, 2008
In this lecture, timed around what would have been Whitman s 189th birthday, we will examine several of his poems, as well as their context and legacy, in order to see why Ezra Pound said of Whitman, He is America. 7-8:30 p.m.; $5 Tuesday, June 3. (Brookline TAB, MA)
Home from home May 17, 2008
Ezra Pound moved to London 100 years ago, filled with zeal to overthrow the old guard ... As soldiers do when marching into battle, Ezra Pound heralded his progress through London with songs ... Outward from Church Walk - his "proper corner" - Pound covered the surrounding streets, "stone by stone ... / by foot thru Ken G Hyde ... / house by house" (from a letter to Patricia Hutchins, author of the enjoyable Ezra Pound's Kensington, 1965). (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Don’t remember Heston for NRA Apr 8, 2008
Artists are sometimes not 'intelligent' about their choices -- Ezra Pound for Mussolini; the great philosopher Martin Heidigger for Hitler; Knut Hamsum the most revered Norwegian writer of the 20th century backed Hitler even in the face of Germany's invasion of Norway in 1940. Chuck disliked the '60s as a 'revolutionary' period which questioned and reinvestigated the shibboleths of US history; he preferred an older, more comfortable, 'liberal' view really that stopped maybe with JFK's 'Ask not... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Back from D.C. ... is it opening day? Apr 1, 2008
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Fighting in the captain s tower. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Safety Nets For The American Dream Mar 22, 2008
Months after graduation, I put aside James Joyce and Ezra Pound and joined a rifle company in frigid Korea. There were just print journalists covering the war then. (Forbes)
Read more... Mar 15, 2008
"As the first arts organization to offer mobile content, the Academy of American Poets affirms its imperative to connect people to poetry by creating free and simple access for everyone. Ezra Pound said, 'Literature is news that stays news,' and now you can find poems while on the go, as easily as you can read the news, find a map, or check the weather report.". Poems can be browsed by author, title, occasion, or form, and searched easily by keyword. (PNN Online)
Making (and losing) the band Mar 9, 2008
Krukowski explained in an e-mail that 15 years after going their separate ways he and Yang have moved on, and that the duo's 1992 album, "More Sad Hits," remains the best testament to their feelings - specifically, an Ezra Pound quote included in the liner notes about the worthlessness of market-driven art, and the lyrics to "Information Age": "Our eyes will never meet again/ We're not the same/ Guess we never were/ And all the things we knew/ Even I love you/ Are not the same/ They're just... (Boston Globe)
Ron Paul, American Artifact Feb 18, 2008
Thats the phrase Gertrude Stein used to sum up poor Ezra Pound, the crazed poet and another money crank ... Thats the phrase Gertrude Stein used to sum up poor Ezra Pound, the crazed poet and another money crank. (Townhall.com)
Local translator artfully renders Chinese poetry Feb 2, 2008
The poem, On the White Stone, reminded me of Ezra Pound s successful efforts to put into English Chinese thoughts and lines. Go, go to the deserted garden, / find a slab of white stone. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Nelson Burdick lives for his art, creativity Jan 31, 2008
"Edgy" influences early in his life were Bob Dylan, Ezra Pound and Picasso, an eclectic mix that shaped a young man. Now he says his influences are, "everything I see and everything I hear. Everyone is a product of their environment." He attends art shows and museums for inspiration. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Obituary: Sargon Boulus Jan 18, 2008
He became intoxicated by the classical English poets and translated Shakespeare's sonnets, as well as Shelley, Ezra Pound, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. At his death, he left uncompleted a major study and translation of the writings of WH Auden. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Italian heritage served soldier well in WWII Jan 15, 2008
The man turned out to be Ezra Pound, the exiled American poet who had been living in Italy for years and who had supported Mussolini. After the war, Greco married his high school sweetheart, Carmelina. (The St. Augustine Record)
The trouble with Western art today Dec 20, 2007
The artist, as the American poet Ezra Pound said, is the antenna of the race, picking up cultural currents via supersensitivity. If that's true, much of what Western artists are picking up is cause for sleepless nights. (Boulder Colorado Daily, CO)
'Americans talk of the death of French culture' Dec 8, 2007
He risks seeing the ghost, not only of this French scribbler but also of the great Poe , or the remarkable Ezra Pound, or others no less crushed by the same machine, coming back to haunt his sleepless nights. Axiom four: Art is like science. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
'Show them the money' Dec 4, 2007
It may be reminiscent of the poetry of Ezra Pound, but you re not supposed to achieve that accidentally. Now for the taunting highlights. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
The pathos of things Nov 24, 2007
Ezra Pound and TS Eliot landed as expatriates, seeking on the one hand to find in Europe the origins of their cultural tradition, and seeking on the other hand to shake that tradition up, revive it and retune it to other registers ... So while it is true that our sense of the Japanese effect was heightened by Ezra Pound's Imagism, it's also fair to say that from the start there has been a certain resemblance between vernacular Irish and traditional Japanese ways of looking at things. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
BE THANKFUL...YOU AIN'T THEM Nov 22, 2007
Ezra Pound s In a Station of the Metro, e.e. cummings Leaf Falling, and many good Haiku s are great examples of good, non-rhyming poetry. Here s one of my favorites, that makes you see the moon from the point of view of a bass and person simultaneously. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Today In History - October 30, 2007 Oct 30, 2007
In 1885, poet Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho. In 1944, the Martha Graham ballet Appalachian Spring, with music by Aaron Copland, premiered at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with Graham in a leading role. (CBS2.com, CA)
R.B. Kitaj, 74; paintings conveyed historical, literary themes Oct 25, 2007
Mr. Kitaj (pronounced kuh-TIE) was a self-taught intellectual whose literary tastes ranged from Franz Kafka to Henry James to Ezra Pound to Walter Benjamin. His canvases often gave a nod to their work, as well as to the filmmakers and other visual artists he claimed as inspirations. (Boston Globe)
* Flappers lit the way to freedom Oct 25, 2007
As Picasso, Leger or Max Jacob took in the new Afro-jazz beat in their favorite Paris haunt and Gertrude Stein hung out with literary giants Ernest Hemingway or Ezra Pound, equally momentous creative change was afoot in the world of women's wear. The exhibition, which runs until Feb. 29, features 170 models and scores of accessories dished up by ground-breaking, legacy-leaving designers of the time - Paul Poiret, Jean Patou, Jeanne Lanvin, Perugia, Suzanne Talbot and Madeleine Vionnet. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Creative Genius Oct 24, 2007
In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway s memoir of 1920 s Paris, he mentions teaching Ezra Pound, one of many American expatriate writers in Paris at the time, how to box with questionable success. It was just basic moves. (Suite101.com)
The Synesthesiac Oct 19, 2007
"English literature lives on translation, it is fed by translations, every new exuberance, every new heave is stimulated by translations"- Ezra Pound. Art is a powerful universal language, especially when it evokes emotion that can be recognized by those in all walks of life. (Middlebury College -- The Campus, VT)
Humble pie at Starbucks Sep 24, 2007
Comfortable, he reminisces, is summers in Connecticut, throwing apples at the poet Ezra Pound. Upper-crust memories crop up repeatedly in Starbucks happier times spent with the likes of Robert Frost, E.B. White, Jackie Kennedy, Ernest Hemingway, Muhammad Ali, Frank Sinatra and Brooke Astor. (USA Today -- Money)
Hemingway in Paris: It's what's in Ketchum Sep 19, 2007
He traded boxing lessons for editing help from Hailey native Ezra Pound, who called Hemingway he finest prose stylist in the world. And he counted Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach, Alice B. Toklas, ee cummings, Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Archibald MacLeish, Pablo Picasso and others among his friends. (Wood River Journal, ID)
Another side of Bob Dylan Sep 8, 2007
In particular he championed the claims of popular against high culture: "Ezra Pound and TS Eliot / Fighting in the captain's tower / While calypso singers laugh at them / And fishermen hold flowers." His work is full of warnings against overinterpretation ("I ain't lookin' to ... Analyze you, categorize you, finalize you") and institutional "lifelessness". So, yes, it is ironic that he has entered the canon, that students are prescribed what they once had to seek for themselves; but it's an... (Guardian Unlimited)
Dylan projects are blowin' in Sep 6, 2007
"His charisma is startling. With electricity and radio, he did what Yeats, Lorca, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound never achieved. "He reached a mass audience with poetry. " Share this story: Posted Updated | | | To report corrections and clarifications, contact Reader Editor . For publication consideration in the newspaper, send comments to . Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. By David Gahr, Sony/BMG Season of Dylan: The troubadour is having a pop-culture moment at age 66.... (USA Today -- Life)
Mining history into art Aug 15, 2007
The top halves of the portraits are hanging in the old Ezra Pound house in conjunction with the current exhibition of Pass Mine Artists' Books. If you go. (Wood River Journal, ID)
Brooke Astor dies at 105 Aug 14, 2007
There was tennis with the poet Ezra Pound, whom she described in her memoir as "an extremely uncouth man with bright red hair and an enormous stomach." They also enjoyed conversation with the caricaturist Max Beerbohm and tea with novelist Evelyn Waugh. In New York, Brooke Marshall worked as an editor at House and Garden Magazine. (Newsday -- World)
The A-Z of Bob, and other weird stuff Aug 13, 2007
E is for Ezra Pound, the American poet with a taste for fascism who Dylan rescued from pop obscurity in Desolation Row. Ezra and T. S. Eliot were "fighting in the captain's tower/ while calypso singers laugh at them and fishermen throw flowers.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
This Day in History Aug 11, 2007
Ezra Pound, American poet-critic (1885-1972). Untitled Document. (Montana Standard, MT)
DEATH & THE DIRECTOR Jul 31, 2007
These critics wanted the movies instead to mimic the forbidding demands and even more forbidding themes of high modern art - from the difficult poetry of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound to the assaultive aesthetic of Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. Bergman was their man. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Something to write home about . . . Jul 14, 2007
" Ernest Hemingway to Ezra Pound, July 1925. A satirical diatribe on the virtues of bulls, written at Burguete, Spain, on the way to Pamplona. "Bulls at least are not the greatest stylists in English. No bull has ever been a political exile. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The golden bird Jul 14, 2007
The distinctive new voice that came through from around 1912 owes something to collaboration with Ezra Pound, but there were clear precedents in his early conditioning. It is clear that the landmark collection The Wild Swans at Coole owes much to the upheavals in Yeats's life after 1914, and especially after 1916. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Saving St. E's Jun 22, 2007
If Americans have heard of St. Elizabeths at all, it is vaguely as the place where the would-be Reagan assassin is confined or, for older English majors, where crackpot poet and would-be-fascist Ezra Pound was locked up after World War II.. In fact, St. Elizabeths Hospital -- St. E's, as it's called locally -- is a national treasure, although one that is badly deteriorating, to the point where it has been classified as one of our most endangered historic sites, and one that may one day disappear... (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Actress, writer make most of a fascinating subject Jun 16, 2007
With a breathy little-girl voice, Maleczech evokes a spoiled young woman who brags about her furs, claims she rejected Samuel Beckett (who worked as her father's assistant for a time) as a suitor because he was too tall, and declares impishly that she would like to sit on the lap of Ezra Pound again. Just as quickly, she whines with the complaints of an old woman whose false teeth don't fit. (Boston Globe)
Broken peace over the printed word Jun 11, 2007
The quarterly magazine, which boasts that it introduced Arthur Miller, Anais Nin, Ezra Pound, Jean-Paul Sartre, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Dylan Thomas to Australian audiences, was founded in 1940 in Brisbane by Clem Christesen. But it moved to Victoria five years later. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Lucrative poetry prize to be handed out in Toronto Jun 7, 2007
The international nominees include literary stars such as American poet Frederick Seidel, a protege of Ezra Pound and a founding editor of The Paris Review. The Canadian short list includes two poets from Toronto as well as veteran wordsmith Don McKay from Victoria. (CTV.ca)
Writing, eating from nose to tail Jun 6, 2007
And he hasn't forgotten the extravagant wild game dinner of grilled fresh anchovies, gravlax and blinis, pickled bison tongue, wild mushroom stew, grilled sage hens and grouse and profiteroles that Sun Valley caterer Ric Lum served up at the Ezra Pound house three years ago when Harrison visited Hailey to speak as part of a Community One-Read program. found out when I made the notes for this the other night that talking about food was much more interesting than talking about my writing, said... (Wood River Journal, ID)
Letters by Napoleon, Churchill kept in laundry room Jun 4, 2007
Another lot of interest is a letter written by Ernest Hemingway to the American poet and critic Ezra Pound in 1925, explaining why bulls are better than literary critics. "Bulls don't run reviews. Bulls of 25 don't marry old women of 55 and expect to be invited to dinner. Bulls do not get you cited as correspondent in Society divorce trials. Bulls don't borrow money. Bulls are edible after they have been killed.". (ABC News Online, Australia -- World)
Zombie Insurgency?: May 16, 2007
In the New York Observer, Adam Begley comments, "Reading the of his novel, we see the catastrophe anewsmell it, taste it, hear it, feel itas if that September morning had dawned again, fresh and bright." And Newsweek raves, "Falling Man feels like the first [about 9/11]. Literature, Ezra Pound said, is news that stays news, and reading Falling Man is like looking into a mirror and seeing the familiar face there as if for the first time." But the New York Times' notoriously picky Michiko... (Slate)
'Georgia': Not a peach of a movie May 11, 2007
While wreaking havoc in the lives of almost everyone she encounters, she takes a few seconds to quote Ezra Pound, identify a Bach sonata and somehow qualify for admission to Vassar. We are supposed to believe that under her bad-girl posturing is a smart, sensitive and misunderstood teen. (USA Today -- Life)
Listen to the sound of Ezra Pound May 10, 2007
Ezra Pound's Cantos is published by New Directions Publishing Corp They can be contacted at editorial @ ndbooks ... PennSound Ezra Pound page edited by Richard Sieburth Note: The bracketed page numbers for non-Cantos materials are taken from the Library of America edition of Pound's Poems and Translations ... The Canto page numbers are taken from the thirteenth printing (1995) of the New Directions edition of The Cantos of Ezra Pound. (USA Today -- Tech)
Streaming Poetry Readings Available for Download May 10, 2007
PHILADELPHIA -- When you're done loading your iPod with Better than Ezra and Carlos Santana, why not try a little Ezra Pound or William Carlos Williams. Recordings of the poets' works are available for free through PennSound, an online audio archive developed by professors at the University of Pennsylvania. (Newsmax)
Master of our past May 5, 2007
Among those who posed for his lens: Dame Joan Sutherland, Thomas Hardy, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Vaslav Nijinsky, Albert Einstein and most of the royal family. Such commissions made Hoppe a wealthy man with a 32-room home in London. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A poet embraces life itself as his muse May 2, 2007
Ezra Pound is a modernist. Seidel rides a motorcycle. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
Canadian Don McKay shortlisted for Griffin Poetry Prize Apr 4, 2007
Seidel, the reclusive, Manhatten-based, award-winning poet who was a protege of U.S. poets Ezra Pound and Robert Lowell, is nominated for the $50,000 international Griffin honour for his latest collection, Ooga-Booga. His competition includes two fellow Americans and a young, British poet. (CBC.ca)
Nancy Cunard: A troubled heiress with an ideological mission Mar 31, 2007
Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound and Louis Aragon were among her lovers ... In this milieu, she met Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis, who were then spearheading a "literary revolution" in England. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The fatal flaw Mar 31, 2007
"Literature is news that stays news," said Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams thought the news "a trivial fill-gap", which any true poet will discount. Many poets today feel the same, that writing about current events is a doomed enterprise: as Alan Brownjohn puts it (discussing Simon Armitage's 1,000-line millennium poem about the year 1999), it's like "a dash at a moving train to get a hold / On something solid as it speeds up - bold, / But pretty risky." Several poets have jumped aboard,... (Guardian Unlimited)
* The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep Mar 2, 2007
(At Yale, Angleton helped found a poetry magazine in which he published Ezra Pound, a family acquaintance. This attempted seduction parallels a rather more comical one involving Angelina Jolie, who plays Margaret Russell, the sister of another Yale student. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Measure for measure Feb 26, 2007
Among the tribe of postwar American poets who rebelled against the vatic high modernism of T. S. Eliot by pledging allegiance to the unadorned free verse in "open forms" pioneered by Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, the late Robert Creeley (1926-2005 ) arguably possessed the shrewdest sense of measure and the surest feel for exacting verbal economy. His newly released "Collected Poems, 1975-2005," which together with its reissued 1982 companion volume containing the first 30 years of his... (Boston Globe)
The arts column Feb 21, 2007
Ezra Pound transformed the manuscript of T S Eliot's The Waste Land to an almost shocking degree, and Stephen Walsh's new biography of Stravinsky suggests at the extent to which his later music was "corrected" by Robert Craft. These interventions may be all to the good of the art, but Eliot and Stravinsky remain its creators: Pound's contribution to The Waste Land was the essentially negative one of stripping away its excesses, while Craft has written no music of note off his own bat. (Telegraph.co.uk)
War of ideas Feb 17, 2007
I am not denying that in some fields, notably literature, some of the most distinguished figures were clearly on the right - TS Eliot, Knut Hamsun, Ezra Pound, WB Yeats, Paul Claudel, C;line, Evelyn Waugh - but even in the armies of literature, the politically conscious right formed a modest regiment in the 1930s, except perhaps in France. Once again, this became evident in 1936. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The Moneyed Muse Feb 12, 2007
The earliest issues contained poems by Ezra Pound (living in London and from the start the magazine s foreign correspondent), as well as H. D. and Wallace Stevens, both unknowns ... You know that line of Ezra Pound s about Walt Whitman, Let there be commerce between us. (New Yorker)
David Orr on Robert Frost Feb 5, 2007
He's a definitive Great American Poet, yet he's never been embraced by the American academy as eagerly as, say, Ezra Pound. (In fact, Frost may be the only poet who is universally acknowledged to be a master but who nonetheless seems to require periodic reputation-buffing essays from the likes of Randall Jarrell and Seamus Heaney. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Looking Across the Pages Feb 3, 2007
Includes the works of noted authors such as Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Dubois, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, and Langston Hughes. Specifically regarding fiction, writers of the early 20th century began to feel that the traditional literary form was condescending to the reader, as well as... (Suite101.com)
Musings on Saul Bellow's triumphs and shortcomings Feb 3, 2007
And it occurred to me that Moses Herzog's high-flown communications to Nietzsche and Adlai Stevenson resembled, tonally, the letter Bellow himself, in a fit of magnificent outrage, had sent to William Faulkner in 1956, after Faulkner had fatuously championed Ezra Pound despite Pound's loathsome anti-Semitic tirades. These insights, such as they were, seemed plausible, but inconsequential, for they ignored the one essential truth about Bellow's novels: they collectively yield a vision of the... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Snapshots of emotion Jan 31, 2007
Poetry affords children the chance to discover and express their own thoughts and feelings, to speak from their hearts in "language pared down to its essentials," as poet Ezra Pound put it. Shelters' fifth-grader Emilielynn Smith put her worries about American soldiers in Iraq into these seven thought-filled lines. (The News-Herald)
Jim Harrison on Karl Shapiro Jan 27, 2007
Later, on a prize committee made up of famous poets, he was one of only two who voted against awarding Ezra Pound the Bollingen Prize, and it was a grand literary scandal at the time. Shapiro cast his vote as a Jew in opposition to a renowned anti-Semite. (International Herald Tribune)
Biography paints Ginsberg more as social catalyst than poet Jan 22, 2007
We learn that "he enjoyed listening to Wagner while on mescaline," and when he met Ezra Pound in Venice, he played a Beatles album for the older poet. Everywhere we are given details, prices, and distances. (Boston Globe)
An American in Paris Jan 20, 2007
A letter of 1914 voiced the almost unmentionable thought (which she shared with other conservative modernists such as Yeats, Lawrence and Ezra Pound) that the war was somehow an inevitability, a product of a decaying civilisation: "The only consoling thought is that the beastly horror had to be gone through, for some mysterious cosmic reason of ripening and rotting, and the heads on whom that rotten German civilisation are falling are bound to get cracked." But the US did not seem "morally... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Best-selling author John Berendt has a knack for discovering quirky characters Jan 15, 2007
His 2005 book, City of Fallen Angels, found a comparable cast of characters in the ancient Italian city of Venice, from a peculiar American couple who might have been swindling the aged former mistress of the poet Ezra Pound to a millionaire who had turned his apartment in a canal-side palazzo into a replica of a starship. He'll be talking about these adventures in a lecture, "From Savannah to Venice," at 6:30 p.m. Friday on the main stage of Thalian Hall. (The Morning Star)
Read More... Jan 12, 2007
And he was a delightful story teller, whose love of language was evidenced not only by his own novels, but by his ability to quote virtually everything James Joyce and Ezra Pound ever wrote. backwards, while explaining what evolutionary level of primate behavior the author was elucidating. (Disinformation)
Where the truth lies about lives of the famous Jan 4, 2007
The late Humphrey Carpenter (biographer of Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden and Ezra Pound) admitted that he was always looking for idols to demolish, because I m that sort of a person. Freud saw in many biographers a desire to devalue greatness, to find the feet of clay. (TimesOnline)
'The Way It Wasn't' Jan 2, 2007
Laughlin published a select group of avant-garde writers and poets, championing the work of William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop and other new voices emerging around the time of World War II.. Laughlin also salvaged out-of-print books such as F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and "Miss Lonelyhearts" by Nathanael West, killed in a car crash en route to Fitzgerald's funeral, and gave the "unpublishable" Henry Miller an outlet for his essays and travel writing. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
