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The writer’s voice

By TF | Published: July 27, 2010
I have of late come across a number of recordings of authors reading their work and thought it prudent to gather the ones that interest me in one spot – for myself as much as anybody else. Discussions of how an author sounds are inevitable. But I would encourage listeners to take the time to [...]
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A serious science – Ezra Pound on the arts

By TF | Published: July 5, 2010
“The arts, literature, poesy, are a science, just as chemistry is a science. Their subject is man, mankind and the individual.” From ‘The Serious Artist’ by Ezra Pound.
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A prize-worthy force – Extract from How to Read

By TF | Published: May 7, 2010
It appears to me quite tenable that the function of literature as a generated prize-worthy force is precisely that it does incite humanity to continue living; that it eases the mind of strain, and feeds it, I mean definitely as nutrition of impulse. This idea may worry lovers of order. Just as good literature does [...]
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Materials of art

By TF | Published: April 17, 2010
Words are perhaps the hardest of all material of art: for they must be used to express both visual beauty and beauty of sound, as well as communicating a grammatical statement. From Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry by T.S. Eliot.
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Public Library 12.02

By TF | Published: February 12, 2010
The Chess Master and the Computer. Garry Kasparov on the history of the chess player’s nemesis, the chess computer. Via New York Review of Books. Pound’s Collected Poetry Recordings. PennSound’s complete collection of Ezra Pound recordings. Includes a good interview with Richard Sieburth, the page’s editor. A nation of racist dwarfs. “Kim Jong-il’s regime is [...]
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A note on Ezra Pound & Japan

By TF | Published: February 8, 2010
For reasons that will become clearer (to myself) at a later date, I am reading Ezra Pound & Japan, a collection edited by Sanehide Kodama. Ezra Pound & Japan collects over fifty years of correspondence between Pound and various Japanese poets and editors. The latter parts of the book also contains Ezra’s actual contributions to [...]
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