ars ezra pound

the three rules of ezra pounds ars poetica;
image, image, and image.
what the image conjures is your poem.

yes, write what you know, but write it in images.
write it anew, but write it in images,
and write it today, but write it in images.




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toronto sound scape

example of influencing machine technology in use. a woman with blood on her face comes in to building lobby sits down near me and recites a poem about the microchips in her blood.


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toronto townscape

a ruined wall somewhere downtown toronto, and a sign warning against going among the ruins too often.

sitwell—dust

(who) came from the tomb of the three furies... and taught the minotaur dark, ... new ways to kill ... who knows which dust is dives, which black dust is lazarus, changed into garden loam ... who knows which dust is silence, and which thunder ... who knows the history of silence, or of thunder ... and i, whose heart is formed of the dust of the three furies... ate my heart, the flesh of the wakeful nightingale... when eastern light ripens the precious dew ...

excerpts from edith sitwell song of the dust.

goethe--urpflanze

that poem goethe wrote to preface his essay on the similarity of plant formz.

sitwell--necromancers hybrid

black velvet apricots in the basket at the grocerie, not the black apricots sitwell wrote of though close enough for my tastes.

 

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