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Subject: POUND, EZRA (1885-1972)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER THE RELEASE OF EZRA POUND, by DANNIE ABSE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: In soho's square mile o funoriginal sin
Last Line: Walt whitman would have been eloquent, %and thomas jefferson would have cursed
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


AND OLE EZ SAID THAT THE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The very same thing to him
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


ANOTHER CANTO, by JOHN CAMERON AUDRIEU BINGHAM MORTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Monsieur ezra pound croit que
Last Line: Quelque chose très deep, ma foi!
Alternate Author Name(s): Beachcomber; Morton, J. B.; Morton, John Bingham
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


ASTIGMATISM, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poet took his walking-stick
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism


ASTIGMATISM, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poet took his walking-stick
Last Line: Peace be with you, brother. You have chosen your part
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Women's Rights


ASTROPHYSICS AND US, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What astrophysics conceives of
Last Line: Have lived to see the time of the commingling of all things
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


ASYLUM, by DAVID R. CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I said, 'you're right!' at last they found %the perfect place for ezra pound
Last Line: Whatever drums our eardrums beat - %poetry, insanely sweet
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Social Protest


DRINKING TEA WITH EZRA POUND IN VENICE, by WILLIAM DORESKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Christmas has passed and the light
Last Line: And how deeply in living creatures %such lordly trauma adheres
Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Food And Eating; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Tea; Venice, Italy


EPISTLE TO THE RAPALLOAN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ezra, whom not with eye nor ear have I ever
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


EZRA POUND, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Horizontal in a deckchair on the bleak ward
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


EZRA POUND, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Horizontal in a deckchair on the bleak ward
Last Line: You, 'I began with a swelled head and end with swelled feet'
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


EZRY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maybe you ranted in the grove
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


EZRY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maybe you ranted in the grove
Last Line: Giddy with grandeur where you stood
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


HEAT LIGHTNING, PROGRESS, CAT, GEORGE ORWELL, by ALPAY ULKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is a cat walking on rice paper
Last Line: If the storm can't be stopped, could the cooling? %someone flings a window open. Take a breath
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


HOMAGE AND LAMENT FOR EZRA POUND IN CAPTIVITY, MAY 12, 1944, by ROBERT DUNCAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Apprehension this spring ... The leaves, the leaves
Last Line: Still, as still as everness returning
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


HOMAGE AND LAMENT FOR EZRA POUND IN CAPTIVITY, MAY 12, 1944, by ROBERT DUNCAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Apprehension this spring ... The leaves, the leaves
Last Line: Still, as still as everness returning
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


I AM A MEDE AND PERSIAN, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


I LOVE THEREFORE I AM - I SUFFER BUT I'M ALIVE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And we read in the books of the ancients
Last Line: Because without us poets they simply wouldn't exist
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


J'AME DONCE JE SUIS - JE SOUFFRE MAIS JE VIS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Et nous lisons dans les livres
Last Line: Poetes ils n'existeraient pas
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


KNOWLEDGE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Said pound (out of homer)
Last Line: Hath yet his mind entire
Subject(s): Knowledge; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


LA TRISTESSE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And pound in his despair in the army prison camp at pisa
Last Line: La tristesse, tard, tres tard je t'ai connue
Subject(s): Grief; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


LAST POEM TO BE WRITTEN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When, when & whenever'
Last Line: Lady of all brightness %donna del mio cuor
Subject(s): Love; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


LATE BUT! ONE FOR EZRA, by DESMOND EGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I cannot take you off the lawns of the mental home
Last Line: I'm talking about ezra pound
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


LIKE HIM I NEED THE PAST, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I must have it - I feed on it
Last Line: The list is long we are a %gallant & merry company
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


LOST ETC., by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The expatriates of the
Last Line: Than the eighteenth amendment
Subject(s): History; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Revolutions; U.s. - Constitution; U.s. - History; Historians


LOST ETC., by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The expatriates of the
Last Line: Than the eighteenth amendment
Subject(s): History; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Revolutions; U.s. - Constitution; U.s. - History


METAMORPHOSES: 20. PHAETON (EZRA POUND), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We ate mush at the oldage home and waited for the jews
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


METAMORPHOSES: 20. PHAETON (EZRA POUND), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We ate mush at the oldage home and waited for the jews
Last Line: And you, tongue cut off, dare approach me for alms?
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


NO MY DEAR, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll not wish you the death
Last Line: The world so go your way %my dear and I'll go mine
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.)


ON FIRST HEARING EZRA POUND AT ST. ELIZABETH'S HOSPITAL, by T. H. S. WALLACE    Poem Source                    
First Line: He pushed aside the curtain
Last Line: And then he would cling %to his thin syllables, %desperate for meaning
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


ON THE FLY-LEAF OF POUND'S CANTOS, by BASIL BUNTING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are the alps. What is there to say about them?
Last Line: Fools! Sit down and wait for them to crumble!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


ON THE FLY-LEAF OF POUND'S CANTOS, by BASIL BUNTING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are the alps. What is there to say about them?
Last Line: Fools! Sit down and wait for them to crumble!
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


POEM, by CAROL E. MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have a beard, smeared
Last Line: From these glazed lips the taste %of some golden thing
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Women's Rights


POUND AT SPOLETO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked into a loge in the teatro melisson, the lovely renaissance salle
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


POUND AT SPOLETO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked into a loge in the teatro melisson, the lovely renaissance salle
Last Line: And on %through the leaves
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


RECLINING POSITION, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For his portrait of the poet now in the tate in london wyndham lewis
Last Line: As possible to increase the flow of spermatozoa to his bean - which is %what made him so smart
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


SOME MEMORIES OF E.P. (DRAFTS & FRAGMENTS), by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So I came to rapallo, I was eighteen then
Last Line: And all this was part of my instruction
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


SOME OF US COME TO LIVE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside his cantos like a palace
Last Line: For each of us places for all
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


SONNET: 1, by EDMUND JOSEPH BERRIGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: His piercing pince-nez. Some dim frieze
Last Line: Wind giving presence to fragments
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


STORYLINES: SYNCHRONICITY, by LEONARD KRESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tell me, please, if you believe in synchronicity
Last Line: The words mostly smeared: gods float in the azure air
Subject(s): Literary Form; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


THE ASYLUM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I came to this place one november day
Last Line: We lie nailed and living, love's pure gain
Subject(s): Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925); November; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


THE CAGE, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the americans put pound in a cage
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts


THE LAST POEM TO BE WRITTEN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When, when & whenever'
Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


THE SOUL OF SPAIN WITH MCALMON AND BIRD THE PUBLISHERS, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the rain in the rain in the rain in the rain in spain
Last Line: After all it is the spirit of the thing that counts
Subject(s): Social Commentary; Spain; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


THREE SECRETS FOR ALEXIS, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eliot's lesson from dante
Last Line: About the candle catching fire.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Writing & Writers


WITH TENURE, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If ezra pound were alive today
Subject(s): Academia; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


WITH TENURE, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If ezra pound were alive today
Last Line: The ketchup is stuck inside the bottle %the letter goes unanswered the bell doesn't ring
Subject(s): Academia; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)