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    Lustra of Ezra Pound
    Lustra of Ezra Pound
    Lustra of Ezra Pound
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    Lustra of Ezra Pound

    By Ezra Pound and Bai Li

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    Lustra of Ezra Pound is a lyrical collection by Ezra Pound. Contents: Tenzone, The Condolence, TheGarret, The Garden, Ortus, Salutation, The Spring, Albâtre and many more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 22, 2019
    ISBN4057664633705
    Lustra of Ezra Pound
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    Ezra Pound

    Ezra Pound (1885–1972) is one of the most influential, and controversial, poets of the twentieth century. His poetry remains vital, challenging, contentious, unassimilable.

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      Lustra of Ezra Pound - Ezra Pound

      Ezra Pound, Bai Li

      Lustra of Ezra Pound

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664633705

      Table of Contents

      LUSTRA OF EZRA POUND

      Tenzone

      The Condolence

      The Garret

      The Garden

      Ortus

      Salutation

      The Spring

      Albâtre

      Causa

      A Pact

      Surgit Fama

      Dance Figure For the Marriage in Cana of Galilee

      April

      Gentildonna

      The Rest

      Les Millwin

      Further Instructions

      A Song of the Degrees

      I

      II

      III

      Ite

      Dum Capitolium Scandet

      To καλὀν

      The Study in Aesthetics

      The Bellaires

      Salvationists

      I

      II

      III

      Arides

      The Bath Tub

      Amitiés

      I

      II

      III

      IV

      To Dives

      Ladies

      Agathas

      Young Lady

      Lesbia Illa

      Passing

      Coda

      Ancora

      A TRANSLATION From the Provençal of En Bertrans de Born. Dompna pois de me no’us cal

      The Coming of War: Actaeon

      After Ch’u Yuan

      Liu Ch’e

      Fan-piece, for her Imperial Lord

      Ts’ai Chi’h

      In a Station of the Metro

      Alba

      Heather

      The Faun

      Pervigilium

      The Encounter

      Tempora

      Black Slippers: Bellotti

      Society

      Image from D’Orleans

      Papyrus

      Ione, Dead the Long Year

      Shop Girl

      To Formianus’ Young Lady Friend After Valerius Catullus

      Tame Cat

      L’Art, 1910

      Simulacra

      Women Before a Shop

      Epilogue

      The Social Order

      I

      II

      The Tea Shop

      Epitaphs

      Fu I

      Li Po

      Our Contemporaries

      Ancient Wisdom, Rather Cosmic

      The Three Poets

      The Gipsy

      The Game of Chess Dogmatic Statement Concerning the Game of Chess: Theme for a Series of Pictures

      Provincia Deserta

      CATHAY

      Song of the Bowmen of Shu

      The Beautiful Toilet

      The River Song

      The River-Merchant’s Wife: a Letter

      The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance

      Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin

      Lament of the Frontier Guard

      Exile’s Letter

      From Rihaku FOUR POEMS OF DEPARTURE

      Separation on the River Kiang

      Taking Leave of a Friend

      Leave-taking near Shoku

      The City of Choan

      South-Folk in Cold Country

      Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku

      A Ballad of the Mulberry Road

      Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu

      I.

      II.

      To-Em-Mei’s The Unmoving Cloud

      I.

      II.

      III.

      Near Perigord

      II

      III

      Villanelle: the Psychological Hour

      II

      III

      Dans un Omnibus de Londres

      To a Friend Writing on Cabaret Dancers

      Homage to Quintus Septimius Florentis Christianus (Ex libris Graecae)

      I

      II

      III

      IV

      V

      VI

      Fish and the Shadow

      LUSTRA OF EZRA POUND

      Table of Contents

      Tenzone

      Table of Contents

      Will

      people accept them?

      (i.e. these songs).

      As a timorous wench from a centaur

      (or a centurion),

      Already they flee, howling in terror.

      Will they be touched with the verisimilitudes?

      Their virgin stupidity is untemptable.

      I beg you, my friendly critics,

      Do not set about to procure me an audience.

      I mate with my free kind upon the crags;

      the hidden recesses

      Have heard the echo of my heels,

      in the cool light,

      in the darkness.

      The Condolence

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      A mis soledades voy,

      De mis soledades vengo,

      Porque por andar conmigo

      Mi bastan mis pensamientos.

      Lope de Vega.

      O

      my

      fellow sufferers, songs of my youth,

      A lot of asses praise you because you are virile,

      We, you, I! We are Red Bloods!

      Imagine it, my fellow sufferers—

      Our maleness lifts us out of the ruck,

      Who’d have foreseen it?

      O my fellow sufferers, we went out under the trees,

      We were in especial bored with male stupidity.

      We went forth gathering delicate thoughts,

      Our "fantastikon" delighted to serve us.

      We were not exasperated with women,

      for the female is ductile.

      And now you hear what is said to us:

      We are compared to that sort of person

      Who wanders about announcing his sex

      As if he had just discovered

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