Series: Blogging Pound's The Cantos

An unorthodox look at Ezra Pound’s magnum opus, The Cantos, with a view to how Pound’s text could be seen as a magical one, his occult beliefs and interests as objective (in a fantastical world), and his persona(e?) as it could be treated in a fictionalization of his life. But really, it’s just a quirky read-through of The Cantos, with additional notes about how Pound and his work (or, an imaginary poet like Pound and a work like The Cantos) could be fit into a fantastical narrative.

There is a table of contents for this series here.

Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Canto I

This entry is part 2 of 56 in the series Blogging Pound's The Cantos

For those who don’t know, I’m writing a series of posts about Ezra Pound’s massive book-length poem The Cantos as I work my way through the poems. My readings, designed to help me write a novel featuring Pound as an occult adventurer (more on that here), will stray from the merely academic to the unusual and highly […]

The Traneumentary, Shooting for Trane, and Pound/Trane in Comparison

This entry is part 3 of 56 in the series Blogging Pound's The Cantos

First of all: if you’re interested in John Coltrane, there’s a wonderful podcast series (titled The Traneumentary) which has now concluded, but which is worth working your way through — the segments are brief but contain interviews with all kinds of jazz musicians, producers, and other folks, as well as discussions of specific tracks in […]

Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Canto II

This entry is part 4 of 56 in the series Blogging Pound's The Cantos

For those who don’t know, I’m writing a series of posts about Ezra Pound’s massive book-length poem The Cantos as I work my way through the poems. My readings, designed to help me write a novel featuring Pound as an occult adventurer (more on that here), will stray from the merely academic to the unusual and highly […]