false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676391m/269589.jpg 269589 9 1st paper edtn, incl English tr of Canto LXXII 95382 1972 The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Paperbook) total:521|5:207|4:167|3:103|2:28|1:16| 521 2084 748 44 3 0 false false Mon Nov 09 05:17:55 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 05:23:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Fri Oct 10 04:48:59 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 03:59:31 -0700 2008 ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 14 09:46:25 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 27 10:20:25 -0700 2008 The Cantos is a disaster. Maybe you could justify this mess by citing it as an early example of “found poetry” (i.e., large chunks of it is stuff that Pound cribbed directly from primary sources, but he chopped the lines to make it look like poetry). I confess: I didn’t make it past Ca...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Thu Sep 24 10:55:21 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 11:00:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Aug 27 08:15:27 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 27 12:03:21 -0800 2009 They have not returned.
Cloud's processional and the air moves with their living.
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that design might cover their face,

with usura

hath no man a painted paradise on his church wall
harpes et luthes
or where virgin receiveth message
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Without Pound anti-semitism would have had another tragic clown as its voice and band leader from Venice.

The most important influence on 20th century poetry was a man with flaws as we all have flaws.
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Never quite to Whitman/Eliot/Hart Crane levels, Pound still manages to be entertaining and interesting. Even, at times, lyrical! It helps either to know several languages or have access to Google translator tools while reading.]]> 2 0 false false Wed Nov 19 13:39:37 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 13:39:37 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sat Jul 28 14:23:48 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 14:26:28 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Sat Jun 07 16:12:55 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 23 13:54:36 -0800 2009
I put it down for so long.....I would have to start all over again....I'll pick it up........one day.....it's on my to do list]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=269589