tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3792402403239475044..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Ezra Pound: As toward a bridge over worldsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-13509881683113174962011-02-25T06:55:28.651-08:002011-02-25T06:55:28.651-08:00Thank you Don, and likewise for stopping in at tak...Thank you Don, and likewise for stopping in at taking Leave from a Friend.<br /><br />Wicked cold wet bonechilled morning here, good to have a wise traveling companion.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-67430134657593714112011-02-25T04:29:10.955-08:002011-02-25T04:29:10.955-08:00Thanks, Tom ... the butterfly, and his memory of i...Thanks, Tom ... the butterfly, and his memory of it, harkens to the imagist phase and the first wave of haiku influence ... beautiful.<br /><br />"Two mice and a moth my guides ..."<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59080710096001024762010-08-20T13:18:39.540-07:002010-08-20T13:18:39.540-07:00Pound: as a bridge over worlds
I think that Ezra ...Pound: as a bridge over worlds<br /><br />I think that Ezra Pound was a friend (and 'champion') of Kay Sage<br />... and many, many, many others<br /><br />here a painting of Sage's:<br />"Danger, Construction Ahead", 1940.<br /><br />http://www.tendreams.org/sage/Danger,%20Construction%20Ahead,%201940%201ac.jpg<br /><br />here as many of The Surrealists (poets, painters, men and women)(s)<br /> (sd"used" <br />'bridges' (from world-to-world) in their work(s).<br /><br />doors windows birds watches rubble <br /><br />left for "us" to use as materials for re:building (?)Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-40658224497848767922010-08-20T11:57:53.686-07:002010-08-20T11:57:53.686-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bowie Haganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07567007646230928407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-75613198917398883732010-08-20T07:03:55.901-07:002010-08-20T07:03:55.901-07:00"song sparrow"
There is austerity and m..."song sparrow"<br /><br />There is austerity and melancholy in the last Cantos, but here a passage of uplift, the spirits picked up on the wings of a memory of walking the roads of France, and the falling lark in the Bernart song who has let go, out of joy, his "hold" on the sky... the feeling of wavering in air then carrying over into the tossing of the king-wings over the perilous bridge across worlds -- EP fascinated by the idea of a polar migration in the world of lepidoptera... <br /><br />The stuttering/wavering movement in "The Return" made me think of this passage (a similar sort of sense occurs in Olson's Hotel Steinplatz "heart attack" poem, with the snow flurries...)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-11303584904272847642010-08-20T06:29:43.441-07:002010-08-20T06:29:43.441-07:00Tom,
Ah, thanks for these Tom -- Pound in moments...Tom,<br /><br />Ah, thanks for these Tom -- Pound in moments like these saying it like it is, as they say. Pleasure to find amidst all this fog. . . .<br /><br />8.20<br /><br />light coming into fog against invisible<br />ridge, song sparrow calling from branch<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> approach news of local scene,<br /> “sunset over the field”<br /><br /> “point” of which, appearance,<br /> “sequence” of different<br /><br />grey-white of fog against top of ridge,<br />whiteness of gull flapping to the leftSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83981576694767007462010-08-20T05:35:51.070-07:002010-08-20T05:35:51.070-07:00what could be more steadying than a word from the ...what could be more steadying than a word from the guardian at the Lion Gate, Novum Arcanum<br /><br />...in shaky times like theseTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34011778423557094912010-08-20T04:53:45.584-07:002010-08-20T04:53:45.584-07:00amen, tom.amen, tom.Phanero Noemikonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354noreply@blogger.com