The Cantos: Pound & Co. Reading Group
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There are James Joyce reading groups here in New York. There is a prominent Proust reading group. There are Dante, Cervantes, and Shakespeare societies. There are Tolkien gatherings, and soon there will be Harry Potter groups assembling, no doubt. Ezra Pound's _Cantos_ are, like _Finegans Wake_ and _A la Recherche du Temps Perdu,_ a difficult and dense...and rewarding work of literature. I am considering leading a _Cantos_ read-through and discussion, rather like the _Finnegans Wake_ reading groups. Ezra Pound certainly had a wide-ranging and broadly inclusive mind, as did James Joyce, but when a _Cantos_ read-through has been effected (assuming such a group might be viable and survive until then), we might go on to other unserved worthies, such as Zukofsky's _A_, David Jones' _Anathemata_, Basil Bunting's _Briggflats_, and others. CAVEAT: This is not intended to be a rah-rah session for EP's economic theories, nor will anti-Semitism be welcome. Too often, EP discussions are co-opted by people who think that the _Cantos_ serve them well as a social manifesto. If you lean that way, start your own Meetup. This is about poetry, beautiful and difficult, per il miglior fabbro.
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Our next meeting:
The Cantos: Pound & Co. Reading Group June Meeting
Ezra Pound, for all the raw folly of some of his positions, was one of the greatest poets of our language.
This is about poetry. EP was, as T.S. Eliot said, "Il miglior fabbro"; he was as an old woman in Rapallo hailed him once on the street, "Il gran' Poeta"; he was, as James Laughlin refered to him, "the Master of Those Who Know", he was the "Maestro dei maestri". Read more
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- Wednesday, Jun 18, 2008, 7:00 PM 20080618T230000Z
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What's New?
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"When's/where's the next meetup? Any Creeley fans?"
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"Hello :)"
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"Retired Case Western Reserve University Senior Instructor in Communication. Have mastered Proust and most of Joyce but never tackled Pound -- this is the place and the time to meet the challenge. Spent 8 years in bi-monthly meetings of self inst"
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"Hi Folks, I like the high modernists and I've wanted to give the Cantos a go for sometime. I think the group would be a fun way to facilitate that."
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"cantos pisans is one of the best work ever was written"
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"I love Pound and modernist poetry"
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"I've long thought Pound worth further reading. Good idea."
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"I am a fan of the High Modernists. At the center of the Modernist vortex, to me, were James Joyce and Ezra Pound."
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"The idea is to have a read-through of Ezra Pound's magnum opus, the Cantos. This is similar to the Finnegans Wake read-through groups--though, given the outward-gazing nature of the Cantos, there will..."
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