By Ezra Pound
A brand new variation of Pound's groundbreaking shorter poems.If the discovery of literary modernism is mostly attributed to James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, it was once Pound by myself who supplied (in Hugh Kenner's phrases) "the synergetic presence") to transform person test into a world circulate. In 1926 Pound conscientiously sculpted his physique of shorter poems right into a definitive assortment which might most sensible exhibit the focus of strength, the economic system of skill, and the behavior of research that have been, to him, the hallmarks of the recent style.This assortment, the place Pound offered himself in a number of characters or "masks," was once known as Personae. In 1926, Personae's book gave solidity to a move this present day the paintings stands as one of many vintage texts of the 20th century. Pound students Lea Baechler (of Columbia) and A. Walton Litz (Holmes Professor of English Literature at Princeton) have ready a corrected textual content and provided an informative "Note at the Text" explaining either Pound's unique standards for his choice and the volume's next background.
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In the largest eyes ever, the goggling gimlets of the architeuthis as we sink in the inkwell dark of the blind ocean. As extras in the cast of Yog the Space Amoeba, mouthing Japanese we never before knew, our fear real, the danger fake, each building burnt like a cheap cigarette, down to an ashen stub, down to the loveless earth where you say to me we must run or die. indd 31 6/29/07 11:31:14 AM Seduction with Entropy If you think I’m honest, speak to me when it’s night. I’ll say anything when my face is blank like a moon.
Alone, I would have been fine. Filled my days with model trains and trees whittled down, lowered my face into miniature smoke rising from the locomotive, at once acrid and sweet— inhaling it all, a heaven to hold forever. Or, a picnic, on a green hill. Autumn sun, sandwiches stacked high, and who I could love with me on a red gingham blanket, both of us fattened by time. You would think a bone stoppered my throat for how I talk, ridiculous clot of babble and gurgle, impediment as dreamed by the idiot or obvious— and then writ large, screamed out so no one with ears could ever miss me.
Let’s pretend the moon isn’t the sky’s scar tissue. Let’s pretend the artifact of our breath will remain obedient, not like a dog licking the salt from your hands, but like a robot or a butler, or in a better world than this one, a robot butler. Let’s say it was summer and the world became a lurid green and all we could do to survive was darn the socks of tyrants in a cave beside the green murmur of the sea. What would it mean turning to you in the night disguised in the milk light of the moon?