E.O. Hoppé     Ezra Pound     1918 “…it hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom                           CONTRA NATURAM They have brought whores for Eleusis Corpses are set to banquet at behest of usura.”   Ezra Pound, Canto XLV    1937 Every once in a while, it seems like a good idea to post a little something by Ezra Pound, who is in the quite bizarre position of being one of the great exemplars of modernist poetry, yet who rejected everything in the world that was modern and was a quasi-fascist and an anti-semite.  Sometimes, things make even less sense that they usually do.  The world is quite the irrational place.

E.O. Hoppé     Ezra Pound     1918

“…it hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth

between the young bride and her bridegroom

                          CONTRA NATURAM

They have brought whores for Eleusis

Corpses are set to banquet

at behest of usura.”   Ezra Pound, Canto XLV    1937

Every once in a while, it seems like a good idea to post a little something by Ezra Pound, who is in the quite bizarre position of being one of the great exemplars of modernist poetry, yet who rejected everything in the world that was modern and was a quasi-fascist and an anti-semite.  Sometimes, things make even less sense that they usually do.  The world is quite the irrational place.

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