Bourgeois Radical Sep 17, 2009
Jger shows with abundant quotations how Adorno came to view culture in his own time in much the same way that literary modernist Ezra Pound had, as an industrial commodity or consumer product. He also lets us know Adorno s shocked reaction upon returning to live in his native city of Frankfurt to the destruction wrought by Allied bombing. (The American Conservative)
The Bold Belloc Sep 11, 2009
But perhaps a stray phrase from Ezra Pound s Cantos best sums Belloc up: a failure worth all the successes of his age. . (The American Conservative)
Poet laureate Diane di Prima gets her laurel Aug 14, 2009
A long list of fellow poets was read, including Catullus, Ezra Pound and Michael McClure, who was, with the city's fourth poet laureate, Jack Hirschman, among the revelers. A slight breeze wafted through the studio, as poetry lovers found their natural post-ceremony affinities: Some hovered over a bountiful display of food, others fervently lobbied each other for the legalization of pot, and still others were at the windows, admiring the parade of antique cars owned by Central American refugees... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Monday, August 03, 2009, Ron Silliman, Sillimans Blog Aug 4, 2009
In another 60, you will find Ezra Pound contemplating The Cantos as a keystone to his imagined five-foot bookshelf containing the Great Works. For Pound, the first English-language poet to make use of the typewriter not just as a site for writing, but as a compositional element in the spatial construction of his works, the book is thoroughly a given. (Harper's Magazine)
* COMMUNITY COMPASS: Professor finds Taiwan in poems Jul 28, 2009
She then focused her research on representations of modernity in the works of US expatriates Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein and of Hsia Yu and Yu Kuang-chung (E). Although Parry chose a picture of Taiwans Hsiluo Bridge (j) for the cover of her book, she said one work wasnt enough to bridge the gap between two cultures. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Don’t mess with this Hemingway Jul 10, 2009
In his memoir, Hemingway offered sketches of Gertrude Stein ( She reminded me of a northern Italian peasant woman ), Ezra Pound ( the most generous writer I have ever known ), F. Scott Fitzgerald ( who looked like a boy with a face between handsome and pretty ), Fitzgerald s wife, Zelda ( hawk s eyes with a thin month and deep-South manners ), and Hemingway s first wife, Hadley ( her smile lighted up at decisions as though they were rich presents. . (Boston Globe)
Viereck Revisited May 25, 2009
The continuing controversies over Ezra Pound were a frequent concern: Viereck considered Pound s work aesthetically corrupted by his moral evil, his anti-Semitism and support for the Axis powers. Two of Viereck s earlier books examined the relationship between art, morality, and power at length, Dream and Responsibility in 1953 and Viereck s first book, Metapolitics, originally published in 1941. (The American Conservative)
• Ponder Hemingway prose at Brown Bag Lecture in Twin Falls May 8, 2009
Dyer is a member of the Ezra Pound Association, an organization devoted to the preservation of Pound's birthplace in Hailey. He also is a freelance journalist and musician. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
• Events calendar Apr 17, 2009
Sun Valley Center for the Arts' awards reception for Blaine County students and teachers who received arts and humanities scholarships, 5:30-7 p.m. at The Center, 191 Fifth St. E. The Center awarded more than 50,000 to 40 recipients: two Gay V. Weake Scholarships; 11 honorary Gay V. Weake Scholarships; two renewing Gay V. Weake Scholarships; one Ezra Pound Award for the Visual Arts; 19 High School Arts and Humanities Scholarships; and five Educators' Awards for teachers pursuing professional... (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
* [HARDCOVER: US] Remembrance of things past and political Mar 29, 2009
Joyce himself put a lot of recent Irish history into his early books, and Ezra Pound included ill-organized material about Italian economics in the Renaissance period in his Cantos. The one exception to Guos lack of an explicit political focus is the last story in this book, Brightly Shine the Stars Tonight. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Dylanology 101 Mar 21, 2009
"'Desolation Row' is his 'Waste Land,"' Ricks added; "'Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot/Fighting in the captain's tower'; modernism as the Titanic, it's hilarious, it's brilliant.". Apr. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
High-minded mining of Bob Dylan Mar 20, 2009
" 'Desolation Row' is his 'Waste Land,' " Ricks added; " 'Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot/Fighting in the captain's tower'; modernism as the Titanic, it's hilarious, it's brilliant.". Apres Ricks, le deluge. (Boston Globe)
Manuscript returns to Pearl S. Buck House Mar 5, 2009
" The pages also contain handwritten notes, believed to be from Buck's editor at the time, Richard Walsh, who five years later, became her husband. The suitcase also contained over 100 letters written to Buck and Walsh from various literary celebrities and politicians, including Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and writer Ezra Pound. The Walsh family allowed the letters to be put on display until December 2007. "They are currently in our archives for research purposes," Rhodes said. The... (Springfield Sun, PA)
Boston's wild Harry Crosby left a gilded legacy of Black Sun books Feb 22, 2009
Black Sun published James Joyce, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, Hart Crane, Archibald MacLeish, Kay Boyle, and Max Ernst, among many. T. S. Eliot wrote an introduction to one book, Lawrence another. (Boston Globe)
