An excerpt from Ezra Pound's "Cantos," section LXXXI, read by the poet. Pound was imprisoned and confined for over a decade. He wrote this and the rest of "The Pisan Cantos" during that time.
"Wha...
An excerpt from Ezra Pound's "Cantos," section LXXXI, read by the poet. Pound was imprisoned and confined for over a decade. He wrote this and the rest of "The Pisan Cantos" during that time.
"What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none? First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell, What thou lovest well is thy true heritage What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, It is not man made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.
"Master thyself, then others shall thee beare" Pull down thy vanity Thou art a beaten dog beneath the hail, A swollen magpie in a fitful sun, Half black, half white Nor knowst'ou wing from tail Pull down thy vanity How mean thy hates Fostered in falsity, Pull down thy vanity, Rathe to destroy, niggard in charity, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down.
But to have done instead of not doing This is not vanity To have, with decency, knocked That a Blunt should open To have gathered from the air a live tradition or from a fine old eye the unconquered flame this is not vanity. Here error is all in the not done, all in the diffidence that faltered . . ."
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We live in an era wherein the concept of Treason has been debased. Treason now means approximately He who varies from the class prejudices of the Ruling Mediocracy. Those who live to enforce these prejudices, conversely, are called "Patriotic". Pound had his opinions, yes. Hot,black,highly caffeinated opinions. He offended the delicate sensibilities of those whose ideas have the character of warm milque. He did a great service by dousing their house with gasoline ideas and igniting it his tongue
So romanticized--if that is the word--a view of Pounds' political opinions would not survive a conscientious reading of the transcripts of the Rome broadcasts. Unless, of course, the author of this post is in favor of the venom he spewed there.
Yes, it is him. He was confined in Saint Elizabeth Asylum, Washington, from 1945 to 1958. When he was freed, he returned to Italy and one of the first pictures of him there showed him making the fascist waving. Having said that, for me he is one of the greatest poets of the XXth century. He said terrible things about Jewish people and at the same time helped and suppported Jewish poets like Louis Zukofsky and George Oppen. His behaviour puzzles me and hurts me, because I truly love his work.
Ezra was imprisoned i heard for treson, for tens of years without trial, and realised without conviction.supposedly after 9 or so years they heard his case and asked him how he planned to defend himself. he said hed stand by everything he ever utterd politicaly.and they got socaligesed to find him incompetent to partisipate in his own defence because he said hed stand by everything he ever utterd politicaly.
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this is from a series on PBS called Voices and Visions. They did Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot and others.