The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound by Ira B. NadelMy rating: 3 of 5 starsThis short book does provide an introduction to Pound and his work. And Nadel is a reputable scholar of obvious erudition. Nonetheless, the text feels like it has been inexpertly condensed from a larger, more comprehensive work. There are numerous repetitions …
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Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry by T.S. EliotMy rating: 3 of 5 starsAn important work of early Poundian criticism, this essay makes a strong case for understanding the poet's reworking of traditional meters. Eliot examines several representative poems from Pound's early books, which mostly fall into the category of translations and imitations . While …
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The Panjandrum of Pints proverbs “Wisdom calls out in the street, She lifts her voice on the square and the level” to Pepkin who replies, When I was a child I smelt as a child could taste the difference between green and blue – “How long will fools hate knowledge?” I …
“I must go in for the fog is rising” – that fog’s not real! just Sandburg and his cats working up a steam, pumping the bellows on his fog machine – wait’ll you see his Big Shoulders! Don’t go in when you haven’t really come out yet, stay for a spell, still time to try …
On the other side of our sun hovers another sun, this one entirely black. Beyond the black sun on the other side of our sun, orbits another earth, this one entirely orange. And on that orange earth beyond the black sun on the other side of our sun, everyone stands in the same river infinitely …
Jedediah Smith 