Month: April 2012

“Ezra Poundings”

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This entry is part 13 of 57 in the series Blogging Pound's The Cantos

Someone quipped on Facebook about the term I used for my Ezra Pound study group of many years past: “Ezra Poundings” was what I described our work as. Reading EP some sometimes feel like pounding on a wall, so it made sense. But in the intervening years, the culture has moved on, and somehow now it sounds like a porn movie title (or a pornstar name)… or maybe it always did, and I just didn’t hear it back then. The idea of a pornographic or erotic film about some of the giants of modernist poetry amuses me, and it’s not …

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Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Cantos XII-XIII (Baldy Bacon and Kung)

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Seriously, now...
This entry is part 12 of 57 in the series Blogging Pound's The Cantos

This post is one in a series of readings I’m posting of each poem in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, one by one (so far — I may deal with a few at a time on occasion). These are not exactly typical readings of the poems, so much as readings I’m doing with a specific research project in mind — how to write Ezra Pound as a figure in a novel in which modernist artists, poets, and musicians secretly waged an occult war in the earlier half of the 20th century. If you’d like to know more about the project, I recommend …

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Ill? Maybe…

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To those who are expecting an email or some kind of other contact: I woke up weirdly shaky, and tired, and bleah. I think I caught some kind of cold or something spending the day outdoors in sandals yesterday: it was colder than I expected! Anyway, I hope one more good night’s sleep fixes me up. I need to make a trip in to Seoul to pick up a pair of shoes, assuming I can find some in my size that is. More about why in another post.

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New Korean SF Movie(s)! 인류멸망보고서 / Doomsday Book

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This entry is part 52 of 72 in the series SF in South Korea

I haven’t added anything to the SF in South Korea series, in part because I’ve been consumed with other things, but also because I haven’t heard much of the doings about town. However, last night Miss Jiwaku and I took in the newest Korean SF offering —  titled 인류멸망보고서 (and Doomsday Book in English) and despite our worst fears from the advertising and marketing, the film is actually pretty good! (Miss Jiwaku even went so far as to say she felt it suggested a “way forward” for SF cinema in Korea. More about that later.) The reason we were worried was …

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Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Cantos X-XI (The Malatesta Cantos, Part 2)

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Malatesta
This entry is part 11 of 57 in the series Blogging Pound's The Cantos

This post is one in a series of readings I’m posting of each poem in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, one by one (so far — I may deal with a few at a time on occasion). These are not exactly typical readings of the poems, so much as readings I’m doing with a specific research project in mind — how to write Ezra Pound as a figure in a novel in which modernist artists, poets, and musicians secretly waged an occult war in the earlier half of the 20th century. If you’d like to know more about the project, I recommend …

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