- published: 27 May 2011
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American expatriate poet, critic and a major figure of the early modernist movement. His contribution to poetry began with his promotion of Imagism, a movement that derived its technique from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry, stressing clarity, precision and economy of language. His best-known works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos (1917–1969).
Working in London in the early 20th century as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, Pound helped to discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Robert Frost, and Ernest Hemingway. He was responsible for the publication in 1915 of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and for the serialization from 1918 of Joyce's Ulysses. Hemingway wrote of him in 1925: "He defends [his friends] when they are attacked, he gets them into magazines and out of jail. ... He writes articles about them. He introduces them to wealthy women. He gets publishers to take their books. He sits up all night with them when they claim to be dying ... he advances them hospital expenses and dissuades them from suicide."
(written by kevin griffin)
Lay your hands on the ocean
Lay your hands on the sea
You touch the heart with words
Oooh you satisfy me
You satisfy me
And then you took in hand
Pricked by poisoned pin
Painted the world one color
Oooh you drew me in
You draw me in
We won't read the end
Ezra pound
And if you say a prayer
Please say one for me
And if you light a candle, baby
Please light... light one for me
Did he say he loved you?
Will you still get through?
Did he say he loved you?
Will you still be...
Will you still be true?
We won't read the end
[will you still be true? ]
Ezra pound
We won't read the end
[will you still be true? ]
Ezra pound
We won't read the end
[will you still be true? ]
Ezra pound
We won't read the end
[will you still be true? ]
Ezra pound
You take alice b. toklas and gertrude stein
Put 'em all together and what do you find?
Alice b. toklas and gertrude stein
You put 'em all together and what do you find?
Alice b. toklas and gertrude stein
Put 'em all together
I said sticks and stones can break my bones
But this world can never hurt me
I said sticks and stones can break my bones
But this world
This world can never hurt me
We won't read the end
World can't never hurt me
[ezra pound]
We won't read the end
World can't never hurt me
Oooh yeah, ezra pound
Down in the mess where I wanna be
Stop and find the things that you have not found
Oh, you can never found
[we won't read the end]
[ezra pound]
I ain't everything