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Public Library 12.02
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 even weirder [...]
A note on Ezra Pound & Japan
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 Japanese [...]