Poem #11: L'Art
Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.
- Ezra Pound
posted by Crawdad @ 11:58 PM
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Vice Consul
Diplomatically transformed.
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.
- Ezra Pound
About Me
- Name: Crawdad
- Location: New Delhi, India
From Alizarin: "Most people now know him for his immortal baritone solo in "Naan, the Musical," but I first met Charles under very different circumstances, when he was the first white man to infiltrate the harems of Ottoman Istanbul. He did this through a daring combination of fluent Arabic, nerves of steel, and a surprisingly misleading silk two-piece. Opening the wrong door in the wrong palace, I was ten seconds away from causing an international incident when he approached me, silently took my hand, and led me to a saferoom he called "The Oubliette." Four bottles of Glenlivet later, we were fast friends. Since then, we have mapped the Nile, summited Kilimanjaro, and dove in Barbados for Blackbeard's treasure. He's the man you want piloting your charter vessel; he can tell you if that painting is really a Rembrandt, he can argue your case at the Old Bailey, and he can fend off flesh-eating monkeys while you get the engine started."
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Really, so many good poems by Ezra Pound. I think he said he favored musical language over slavery to the metronome, which sounds nice...
Here's another one by EP: An Immorality
Sing we for love and idleness,
Naught else is worth the having.
Though I have been in many a land,
There is naught else in living.
And I would rather have my sweet,
Though rose-leaves die of grieving,
Than do high deeds in Hungary
To pass all men's believing.
Wow! He has not always been popular, of course, and is still not undertood by many. Inclulding me at times. When I was in college (back in the 1800s) people thought he was just crazy.
And how about this poem:
Few think kindly
Of the thinking few,
And few there are who think
Who think they do.
Thank you Rosie Bauder; 1953, Lewis and Clark College
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