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Women sleep in the garden of the White Star,
And Charlotte celebrating Pig Day.
Eberhardt’s Anthology of Autobiographies.
And the Alaska crab that killed Harding.
Putting two different things together
To show a third is a Metaphor.
And a poem is a conversation
Between two gentlemen.
Honesty is,
If he knows something,
You know it.
The pedagogical poet.
Eliot handed Pound the draft of the Wasteland.
Eliot worked in a bank, and Joyce taught Berlitz,
Pound wrote, the quirky but good, ABC of Reading.
Does China contain a secret history of the world?
Mao is the poet of China’s 20th Century
Pound’s Catholicism, very arcane,
Like Douglas, Gesell, Maletesta,
And then there were the Medicis.
Beaudelaire: “The poet is high priest
Of a secret religion, a religion above morals.”
A Frenchman would say that, but even Ginsburg
Said, “You should bow when you see me.”
William’s violin playing annoyed Pound,
Who was going for a Doctors,
But was fired for moral turpitude?
Then became an Edwardian young man.
Early book of poems signed by Pound,
Ezrato Pound, MA. There was Frost,
There was William Carlos Williams.
Lope de Vega was Pound’s dissertation.
Williams, Anglo-Phobe-Anti-Semite,
Doctored in Berkley County, Rutherford, NJ.
This instinctual poet was published at 57 in 27,
But not in England while Eliot lived.
France at least thought
Artists were as good as anyone else,
Fascists in Italy? What else!
No one could see ahead to a police state.
But there was their own blindness too,
Abetted by RCC machinations. They thought
They couldn’t live in a world
With 27 different kinds of coon.
The Fascist Party of Italy met EP at the pier,
Pound said to Williams that,
David Copperfield was the best novel and
Poetry shd at least be as well written as prose.
It was Bloomsday when Ulysses was published
EP trying to educate Williams
Williams asked Kennedy to “Spring em!”
A raft of books about Ez, the “Pound Industry.”
Translate, not word for word, but ideas,
If you’re to have the emotional experience he had
O’ Mer! Oh Sea! O’ Mere! Oh Mother!
Make It New, Every day, Make It New!
No other Art needs translating, but words.
Would Li Po object to the way he was translated?
Eliot said, “Pound discovered China,
As Dickens did Russia.”
Propinquity! Finals at Oxford were in Latin.
Liars can easily be lied to, as we all know.
Williams thought a poet could only work
In one language. He had a point.
Poet Laureates write to GOV specs,
Not man thinking,
But, what man should be thinking,
Artists thereby chosen for their predictability.
Secret words, private languages,
Define the best of speech.
Williams founded, the
Friends of Ford Maddox Ford to feed him.
England developed as a rural society,
America had an urban trolley car sound,
The rhythm of a trolley car. Artists
Make things to exist by recording them.
Read his poems to old women,
Till they understood and approved.
Eliot, “We call it free verse,
Cause we don’t know what it is.”
Hamlet was a Prince,
Red Badge of Courage was about a Private
Williams, tired of the subjects of poetry,
“Nothing outside of me, as interesting as me.”
Location, location,
Patterson nr NY a is miserable place.
Yeats, “The Cantos a botch, a jumble.”
Williams has written common speech.
Great poetry only under absolute monarchies.
Or absolute something W spent his life
Away from poets. “Avoided these people.”
And their, “Literary cocktail parties.”
WCW paid for, and printed, his own books.
He said, P’s “anti-Semitism, a suburban prejudice.”
Pronounced The Cantos: “A failure.” and
A Guide To Kulchur, “the Cantos in prose.”
“A note will be struck, a fugue developed…
Greatest work in the English language.”
Said, E. Sitwell. Their taste was excellent
Ford Maddox Ford published a magazine.
Full of unknowns, yet all now known.
A writer is a gentleman, amateur or dilettante.
A professional writer is a Journalist.
British snobbery was founded in practicality.
“A poem must look tossed off,” Yeats.
“A writer shd work 24 hours a day,
“And with others professionally,” Pound.
“H J didn’t like E P personally.
Hope springs eternal
And the rich have the money
To pay for it. Thank God. |