Depends what meaning you want to put on "stays"
I remember some years back, sorry if I've said this before, don't think so,
I was doing a gig at Goldsmiths, and a troubled young man took me on one
side. I forget the build up but he "confessed" that he didn't really like
Pound.
I gave him absolution as best as I could.
He was astonished. It seemed that it had never occurred to him that --
well, how shall I say it? I'm guessing where he was coming from because he
was so rattled. Maybe it had never occurred to him that someone could be
doing something "modernist" and yet have reservations about Ezra.
Me, I've got reservations about everyone, including me. I seem to remember
saying he should dip into the Cantos, not plough through them; see what
excited him... To look at Mauberley especially... I quoted the Auden --
silly like the rest of us
and that's blasphemy to some I know, mentioning Wystan... I think *he was
brilliant *and tiresome depending what stuff you looked at...
I only SAW him late on, at Poetry Internationals in London -- or was it
just one? More I think.
Didn't like him at all.
There was one P I where we kept being told that it was likely Pound would
turn up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That Pound changed everything, if you looked at things from the right point
of view, I do not doubt... but...
I keep meeting people going James Joyce James Joyce James Joyce James
Joyce James Joyce James Joyce James Joyce
and he's all right. Me, I get more excited by Saint Gertrude though I
wouldn't want it to be binary
I find it hard to separate with any meaning the poems and broadcasts
though I seem to remember someone saying of him that when they saw the
situation he was in during the 40s that they felt more pity than anger...
I think I'll shut up now
L
On 17 April 2018 at 15:36, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I recall the Hi-Los…
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> As for that other Pound, is he part of the news that stays news…?
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> > On Apr 17, 2018, at 4:41 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > very good
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> > he's in the news so often
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> > On 17 April 2018 at 11:12, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
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> >> Ezra rallies?
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> >> On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 at 8:06 pm, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]
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> >> wrote:
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> >>> Pound remains close to post-Brexit high
> >>> London Times
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> Why not, then
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