I didn't know that one - thank you for that - i think i liked it but the right side of the poem was tucked under some ad and I couldn't read it all.
i saw your cri de coeur in the comments and i can only quote from An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow - "Evading believers he hurried away down Pitt`Street."
cheers - jen> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:26:11 -0400> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: i need help with a quote from Ezra Pound> To: [log in to unmask]> > Do you know James Wright's poem about having his pocket picked in Rome? Here> is a text<http://www.robertpeake.com/archives/358-James-Wright,-On-Having-My-Pocket-Picked-In-Rome.html>&> a discussion from which you will see I think it's an awful piece of> writing. Sorry I can't help you with the Pound, though it rings a bell.> > jd> > On 10/16/07, Jennifer Compton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:> >> > Be great if you could pin this one down for me. I am off the Liguria Study> > Centre in Bogliasco for a month soon and am supposed to be writing a piece> > about my bag being stolen in Rome - and all the ramifications thereof.> > A friend gave me a rough quotation from Ezra - something like - You> > haven't been in Rome until you've been robbed.> > I want to use it as the title for my piece - but I can't find the exact> > quote. He told me it was canto 22 - but I don't think it is. Unless there> > are several canto 22s.> >> > Eternal gratitude etc etc> > Here is a text & discussion.> > cheers - jen> > _________________________________________________________________> > What are you waiting for? Join Lavalife FREE> >> > http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Flavalife9%2Eninemsn%2Ecom%2Eau%2Fclickthru%2Fclickthru%2Eact%3Fid%3Dninemsn%26context%3Dan99%26locale%3Den%5FAU%26a%3D30288&_t=764581033&_r=email_taglines_Join_free_OCT07&_m=EXT> > > > > -- > Joseph Duemer> Professor of Humanities> Clarkson University> [sharpsand.net]
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