tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6745206714582230629..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Ezra Pound: Seven LakesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73808317120959348722011-05-23T06:48:20.629-07:002011-05-23T06:48:20.629-07:00This is the first half of what is commonly called ...This is the first half of what is commonly called the Seven Lakes Canto.<br /><br />It evokes a timeless world, out of the complex fray of history.<br /><br />Lucy, the poet would indeed have been enticed by the Seven Lakes Road to Villa La Angostura. It sounds like a road to heaven, from here. <br /><br />The canto "... derives a vision of tranquillity from a set of anonymous Chinese poems about lakes, calligraphed in a book the poet's father acquired in the early years of the American taste for Oriental artifacts..."<br /><br />(Hugh Kenner)<br /><br />Pound's father's name, by the by, was Homer.<br /><br />EP first translated the eight Chinese poems in the manuscript book in 1928, with the aid of a Chinese visitor, Pao-sun Tseng, founder and president of the I Fang Woman's College.<br /><br />Nine years later, living in Rapallo, he decided to use the translations in the Cantos, adapting them freely for that purpose, rearranging them and interpolating images from one into another.<br /><br />"In the new frame of Canto XLIX, the poems become elegiac fragments which 'speak as if weeping' not so much from a lost world as of a lyric beauty lost to the poet and his poem by the exigencies of his own century. The canto's first line -- 'by no man these verses' -- emphasizes the voicelessness of the images, in which bamboos, cinnamon spikes, rooks and bells sound, but the human voice is silent."<br /><br />(Christine Froula)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-52165032826591669702011-05-23T04:36:36.528-07:002011-05-23T04:36:36.528-07:00Seven is perfection according to the symbolism in ...Seven is perfection according to the symbolism in the Bible. And no symbolism could apply better.<br /><br />Almost as if the poet had been here... For at one block away, on the shores of Lake Lácar, there starts the Seven Lakes Road to Villa La Angostura, on the way to Bariloche. It is a little bit more than a hundred kilometers long and it joins seven lakes =)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90794741615385146862011-05-22T10:41:01.796-07:002011-05-22T10:41:01.796-07:00curtis,tom,
to throw a funny cape on the whole sce...curtis,tom,<br />to throw a funny cape on the whole scenario(well it was funny to start with)....some of my frnds cracked a joke today...that if the countries with the timezones arriving earliest had been wiped out....then would heaven be operating on a first come first served basis ??i mean...we are 1.3 billion people.....shopping mayhem....heaven would profit nonetheless....manik sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055072451804840121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59007106172070583292011-05-22T08:06:38.621-07:002011-05-22T08:06:38.621-07:00As Manik and Stephen note, the word visions and &q...As Manik and Stephen note, the word visions and "vision visions" here are really marvelous. Every time you post a Pound work, I undertake some research and great benefits follow, so thanks very much. Glad you all survived yesterday's heaven and earth events. Good luck to all of us on whatever today brings. This morning's NY Post contains updated repellent Dominique Strauss-Kahn details. What appalling fellow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-77027124674843864332011-05-22T07:20:18.904-07:002011-05-22T07:20:18.904-07:00Much as one hates to have to say it ... at 7:04 PM...Much as one hates to have to say it ... at 7:04 PM the house shook.<br /><br />A 3.8 on the Hayward Fault, atop which we sit. Epicenter a few miles north. <br /><br />A bit of an anticlimax.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-47146491890161096162011-05-22T05:42:37.909-07:002011-05-22T05:42:37.909-07:00Tom,
EP weaving his word visions -- wonderful to ...Tom,<br /><br />EP weaving his word visions -- wonderful to find this on the second morning of the not yet ended world. . . .<br /><br /><br />5.22<br /><br />first grey light in sky above blackness<br />of ridge, silver of planet below branch<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> in the first place, referred<br /> to as second physical <br /> <br /> picture plane, optical field,<br /> second surface itself<br /><br />cloudless blue sky reflected in channel,<br />sunlit shoulder of ridge across from itSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-28072461064378405512011-05-22T01:02:56.780-07:002011-05-22T01:02:56.780-07:00tom,
beautiful images...and an equally beautiful s...tom,<br />beautiful images...and an equally beautiful string of words....Doomsday couldn't touch these places...(as if it touched anything else)...we keep milk for the dogs outside the door...doomsday has been barking for a while....i don't think people who have visited such places(with the right intentions or maybe none in mind) really would care if the milk runs out of dogs or the dogs run out of milk...they have witnessed life throw something at them that makes them incapable of complaining if the shutters have to be pulled...i have felt it...manik sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055072451804840121noreply@blogger.com