CONTENTS

The Periplum

Robert Fitzgerald, “Mirroring the Commendia: An Appreciation of Laurence Binyon’s Version”

Hiroko Uno, “Li-Po and Translation by Ezra Pound”

Scott Johnson, “The ‘Tools’ of the Ideogramic Method”

Akiko Miyake, “Contemplation East and West: A Defense of Fenollosa’s Synthetic Language and Its Influence on Ezra Pound”

Marianne Korn, “Truth Near Perigord”

The Explicator

Eva Hesse, “Raymonde Collignon, or (Apropos Paideuma, 7-1&2, pp, 345-46): The Duck that Got Away”

Eva Hesse, “Helen’s nostos, the ‘Cup of White Gold’”

Xu Qi-Ping, “Pound’s Translation of a Chinese Poem”

Walter Baumann, “Gerhart…Ständebuch”

Jonathan Morse, “What’s His Name”

Philip Furia, “Pound and Blake on Hell”

The Documentary

Ezra Pound, “Mr. Dunning’s Poetry”

Ralph Cheever Dunning, “The Four Winds”

Basil Bunting, “The Village Fields”

The Vortex

Edgar M. Glenn, “Pound and Ovid”

Harvey Kail, “Report on Works-in-Progress”

The Reviewer

Walter Sutton (George Kearns, Guide to Ezra Pound’s Selected Cantos)

George F. Butterick (Michael André Bernstein, The Tale of the Tribe: Ezra Pound and the Modern Verse Epic)

Bruce W. Richman (Forrest Read, ’76: One World and The Cantos of Ezra Pound)

Burton Hatlen (Marjorie Perloff, The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage)

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CONTENTS

The Periplum

Walter Baumann, “Ezra Pound and Magic: Old World Tricks in a New World Poem”

Hans-Joachim Zimmermann, “Ezra Pound, ‘A Song of the Degrees’: Chinese Clarity versus Alchemical Confusion”

Ian F. A. Bell, “Pound’s Vortex: Shapes Ancient and Modern”

Helen M. Dennis, “The Eleusinian Mysteries as an Organizing Principle in the Pisan Cantos“

Daniel Bornstein, “The Poet as Historian: Researching the Malatesta Cantos”

The Explicator

Eva Hesse, “Klages in Canto LXXV/450: A Positive Identification”

Peter D’Eprio, “Canto 74: New Light on Lucifer”

George Bornstein, “‘What Porridge had John Keats?’: Pound’s ‘L’Art’ and Browning’s ‘Popularity’”

Ben D. Kimpel and T. C. Duncan Eaves, “‘Tremaine at 2 in the Morning’ and Other Little Mysteries”

Daniel Pearlman, “Canto 52: The Vivante Passage”

Reno Odlin, “Materials Toward an Essay on Zukofsky’s ‘A’“

Franz Link, “A Note on ‘The Apparition of These Faces…’ in The House of Mirth and ‘In a Station of the Metro’”

The Biographer

David Anderson, “Breaking the Silence: The Interview of Vanni Ronsisvalle and Pier Pasolini with Ezra Pound in 1968″

Michael King, “Go, Little Book: Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle and ‘Hilda’s Book’”

David Feldman, “Ezra Pound: A Poet in a Cage”

The Documentary

Ezra Pound, “Letters from Ezra Pound to Joseph Brewer” (edited with commentary by Brita Lindberg-Seyersted)

Zeami Motokiyo, “Yoro translated from the Japanese by Nobuko Tsukui”

Akiko Miyake, “Commentary on Professor Tsukui’s Translation of Yoro“

The Vortex

Clark Emery, “Father William” and “St. Elizabeths”

John Shea and Timothy Romano, “The Pound-Williams Conference”

The Bibliographer

Peter Schneeman, “Pound in Romania”

Eric Fridman, “Sources of Canto XIII”

The Reviewer

David Anderson (Italian Images of Ezra Pound: Twelve Critical Essays, ed. and trans. Angela Jung and Guido Palandri)

Clark Emery (Wendy Stallard Flory, Ezra Pound and the Cantos: A Record of Struggle)

François Sauzey (Michael Berstein, The Tale of the Tribe: Ezra Pound and the Modern Verse Epic)

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Special Issue
GEORGE OPPEN

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CONTENTS

Dove Sta Memora

Ezra Pound, “Preface to Discrete Series (1934)”

Carl Rakosi, “Two Notes and a Poem for George Oppen”

David Ignatow, “Three Poems for George Oppen”

Charles Tomlinson, “Two Poems for George and Mary Oppen”

Anthony Barnett, “A Note about George Oppen”

Gilbert Sorrentino, “George Oppen: Smallness of Cause”

Michael Cuddihy, “George Oppen: A Loved and Native Rock”

Jonathan Griffin, “George and Mary Oppen”

Christopher Middleton, “A Road that is One in Many”

John Taggart, “Sumac”

Sharon Olds, “Two Poems”

Ted Pearson, “Soundings: VII”

Michael André Bernstein, “Interlude”

Henry Weinfield, “Sonnet”

Mark Linenthal, “An Appreciation”

Sarah Appleton, “George Oppen, 1975″

Shirley Kaufman, “Realities”

David Gitin, “A Note and a Poem”

Leni Mancuso-Barrett, “The Meeting (G. & M. O.)”

Rachel Blau DuPlessis, “Voyaging”

The Periplum

Paul Auster, “A Few Words in Praise of George Oppen”

Constance Hunting, “‘At Least Not Nowhere’: George Oppen as Maine Poet”

Rachel Blau DuPlessis, “Oppen and Pound”

Ron Silliman, “Third Phase Objectivism”

The Gallery

Richard Friedman, “Pictures of George and Mary Oppen, December, 1980″

The Explicator

Cid Corman, “The Experience of Poetry”

David McAleavey, “Unrolling Universe: A Reading of Oppen’s This In Which“

The Biographer

Eliot Weinberger, “A Little Heap for George Oppen”

Jane Augustine, “Mary Oppen: Meaning a Life”

Donald Powell, “‘At the Time of the Rogue’s First Flood”: A Life, Together”

Michael Heller, “For George Oppen”

Dan Gerber, “Of Fathers”

The Bibliographer

David McAleavey, “A Bibliography of the Works of George Oppen”

The Vortex

E. P. Walkiewicz, “Back to ABC: A Report on the Sixth International Ezra Pound Conference”

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CONTENTS

The Periplum

Ben Kimpel and T. C. Duncan Eaves, “American History in Rock-Drill and Thrones“

E. P. Walkiewicz and Hugh Witemeyer, “Ezra Pound’s Contributions to New Mexican Periodicals and His Relationship with Senator Bronson Cutting”

Daniel Pearlman, “Ezra Pound: America’s Wandering Jew”

David Matthew Rosen, “Art and Economics in Pound”

The Explicator

Reed Way Dasenbrock, “Dante’s Hell and Pound’s Paradiso: ‘tutto spezzato’“

Ben D. Kimpel and T. C. Duncan Eaves, “Herbert Hoover and the London Judge”

Ronald E. Thomas, “‘Ere He His Goddis Brocht in Latio’: On Pound’s Appreciation of Gavin Douglas”

The Bibliographer

Andrew Crosland, “Annotated Checklist of Criticism on Ezra Pound, 1961-1965: Part III”

The Zuk Explicator

Reno Odlin, “Materials Toward an Essay on Zukofsky’s ‘A’“

The Vortex

Terri B. Joseph, “‘The Pisan Cantos: Thirty Years After:’ A Report on the MLA Special Session, 1979″

William Hoffa, “‘Ezra Pound: A Celebration,’ Hamilton College, April 25-26, 1980″

Burton Hatlen, “Re Reno Odlin: A Riposte”

The Reviewer

Stephen Fender (Leon Surette, A Light from Eleusis: A Study of Ezra Pound’s Cantos)

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CONTENTS

The Periplum

John J. Nolde, “The Literary Revolutions of Hu Shih and Ezra Pound”

Robert G. Eisenhauer, “‘Jeweler’s Company’: Topaz, Half-Light, and Bounding-Lines in The Cantos“

Randall Schroth, “A Primer for Some of Pound’s Chinese Characters”

John Steven Childs, “Larvatus Prodeo: Semiotic Aspects of the Ideogram in Pound’s Cantos“

The Explicator

Ben D. Kim

The Documentary

The Bibliographer

The Reviewer

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CONTENTS

Dove Sta Memora

Hugh Kenner, “The Sound of Sense”

Robert Creeley, “Basil Bunting”

Ralph Gustafson, “Music Thinks Sensuously, Words Can’t”

Russell Banks, “Good to the Source: A Lesson in Good Manners”

Ronald Bayes, “Balancing Act”

Donald Davie, “But to Remember”

Guy Davenport, “For Basil Bunting”

Peter Lewis, “Canto CLI, from Sartoris”

August Kleinzhaler, “Throw It Out and Try Again”

The Periplum

Carroll F. Terrell, “Basil Bunting in Action”

David Gordon, “A Northumbrian Sabine”

Anthony Suter, “The Writer in the Mirror”

Peter Dale, “Bunting and Villon”

The Gallery

Basil Bunting

A Rawthey Madrigal

The Biographer

Jonathan Williams, “Eighty of the Best”

F. Whitney Jones, “Basil Bunting in America, 1976″

David Gordon, “Bunting Obiter“

Tom Pickard, “Serving My Time to a Trade”

The Documentary

J. A., “Brigflatts Meeting House 1675″

The Bibliographer

Roger Guedalla, “Books and Pamphlets by or Edited by Basil Bunting”

The Reviewer

Peter Quartermain (Louis Zukofsky, ‘A’)

Joseph Cary (‘Ezra Pound Speaking’: Radio Speeches of World War II, ed. Leonard W. Doob)

Hugh Witemeyer (Barbara Eastman, Ezra Pound’s Cantos: The Story of the Text)

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CONTENTS

The Periplum

Max Nänny, “The Oral Roots of Ezra Pound’s Methods of Quotation and Abbreviation”

Kevin M. Oderman, “The Servants of Amor in Pound’s Early Poems”

The Explicator

Eva Hesse, “The Problem of mo in Canto LXXIV”

Franz H. Link, “Pound’s ‘A Girl’ and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, I, 547-555″

Richard Law, “The Seventh Canto Initial”

Peter Davidson, “Heracles & m’la calata“

Barbara Eastman, “The Gap in The Cantos: 72 and 73″

The Biographer

Romano Bilenchi, “Rapallo, 1941″ (translated, with notes and an introduction, by David Anderson)

Enrico Pea, “Thank You, Ezra Pound” (translated, with notes and an introduction, by David Anderson)

Tim Redman, “The Repatriation of Pound, 1939-1942: A View from the Archives”

The Documentary

Ezra Pound, “Letters to John Buchan, 1934-1935″ (edited by S. Namjoshi)

John J. Nolde, “The Sources for Chinese Dynastic Canto LVI: Part Two”

Ben Kimpel and T. C. Duncan Eaves, “Pound’s Use of Sienese Manuscripts for Cantos XLII and XLIII”

The Bibliographer

Andrew Crosland, “Annotated Checklist of Criticism on Ezra Pound, 1961-1965: Part I”

The Vortex

C. T. Thomas, “Link’s ‘Honey-comb’: A Rejoinder”

Michael André Bernstein, “Mythos and Logos in Ezra Pound: The Splitting of the Realms”

Stephen Paul Ellis, “Dante in Pound’s Early Career”

David Holloway, “Report on the Pound Conference, Durham, 1979″

The Reviewer

Walter Baumann (Eva Hesse, Ezra Pound: Von Sinn und Wahnsinn)

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CONTENTS

The Periplum

Nobuko Tsuki Keith, “Aoi No Ue and Kinuta: An Examination of Ezra Pound’s Translations”

David Anderson, “The Techniques of Critical Translation: Ezra Pound’s Guido Cavalcanti, 1912″

The Explicator

Hugh Witemeyer, “Pound and the Cantos ‘Ply over Ply’”

Ian F. A. Bell, “Pound, Emerson and ‘Subject-Rhyme’”

The Biographer

Ezra Pound, “The Poet Speaks”

Francis J. Bosha, “Faulkner, Pound, and the P.P.P.”

Ilse Engel, “Story of a Meeting with Ezra Pound”

The Documentary

John J. Nolde, “The Sources for Chinese Dynastic Canto LVI”

Eva Hesse, “Mythopoiós”

John Espey, “Sidelights from the Italian and German Cantos”

The Bibliographer

George Rooks, “An Annotated Checklist on Ezra Pound, 1976″

Kay Davis, “An index to Canto References in Paideuma“

The Vortex

P.H. Smith and A. E. Durant, “Pound’s Metonymy: Revisiting Canto 47″

Guy Davenport, “The Real Lucifer”

C. F. Terrell, “Durham & Pound Conferences”

The Gallery

Pictures at Durham Conference Taken by H. Witemeyer

Pictures at Durham Conference Taken by Hugh Kenner

The Reviewer

Timothy Materer (Omar Pound and Philip Grover, Wyndham Lewis, a Descriptive Bibliography; and Bradford Morrow and Bernard Lafourcade, A Bibliography of the Writings of Wyndham Lewis)

CONTENTS

The Periplum

James A. Powell, “The Light of Vers Libre”

Sally M. Gall, “Pound and the Modern Melic tradition: Towards a Demystification of ‘Absolute Rhythm’”

The Explicator

Hugh Kenner, “A Note on CX/778″

Eva Hesse, “‘Kadzuk, Arachidi, Acero’ in Canto XCVII/683: A Matter of Coherence”

G. Schmidt, “A Note on Canto CX”

Eric Langumier, “Scarabs and Gold”

Angela P. Elliott, “Lucifer’s Fall in Pound’s Canto LXXIV”

The Biographer

Richard A. Cassell, “A Visit with E.P.”

Eveline Bates Doob, “Some Notes on E.P.”

The Documentary

Ben Kimpel and T. C. Duncan Eaves, “The Source of Canto L”

The Bibliographer

Hollis Sickles, “Annotated Checklist of Pound Criticism 1945-1951″

Natalie Harris, “New Pound Holdings at the Lilly library”

The Vortex

Burton Hatlen, “Stalin and/or Zukofsky: A Note”

E. A. B. Jenner, “‘Medallion’: Some Questions”

The Reviewer

Aldo Tagliaferri (Niccolo Zapponi, L’Italia di Ezra Pound)

Doris L. Eder (William Harmon, Time in Ezra Pound’s Work)

This issue of PAIDEUMA
remembers
Louis Zukofsky
1904-1978

CONTENTS

Dove Sta Memora

Celia Zukofsky, “1927-1972″

Basil Bunting, “Pound and ‘Zuk’”

George Oppen, “My Debt to Him”

Ian Hamilton Finlay, “In Memory”

Gael Turnbull, “For L.Z. on the Occasion Etc.”

Ronald Johnson, “Wor(l)ds 45, A Spire for the Death of L.Z.”

Robert Creeley, “For L.Z.”

Hugh Kenner, “Louis Zukofsky: All the Words”

Harvey Shapiro, “Thinking of the Zukofskys”

Thomas A. Clark, “In Memoriam, Louis Zukofsky”

Hayden Carruth, “Dear Louis”

Guy Davenport, “Scripta Zukofskii Elogia”

Robert Kelly, “A Book of Solutions”

Gilbert Sorrentino, “Louis Zukofsky”

Michael Andre Bernstein, “A Dyptich for Louis Zukofsky”

Ron Silliman, “Louis Zukofsky”

The Periplum

Louis Zukofsky, “A Foin Lass Bodders”

Hugh Kenner, “Loove in Brooklyn”

Robert Duncan, “Reading Zukofsky These Forty Years”

Charles Tomlinson, “Objectivists: Zukofsky and Oppen, a Memoir”

Cid Corman, “The Transfigured Prose”

Don Byrd, “The Shape of Zukofsky’s Canon”

Barry Ahearn, “The Adams Connection”

The Gallery

Early Pictures of Zuk

Later Pictures of Zuk

L.Z.’s Desk at Port Jefferson

Ms. Page for 80 Flowers

The Explicator

John Taggart, “Zukofsky’s ‘Mantis’”

Peter Quartermain, “Recurrencies: No. 12 of Louis Zukofsky’s Anew“

Burton Hatlen, “Catullus Metamorphosed”

The Biographer

David Ignatow “Louis Zukofsky — Two Views”

Hugh Seidman, “L.Z. at Poly Tech (1958-61)”

Harold Schimmel, “Zuk. Yehoash David Rex”

Fielding Dawson, “A Memoir of Louis Zukofsky”

David Gordon, “Zuk and Ez at St. Liz”

Carroll F. Terrell, “Conversations with Celia”

The Bibliographer

Celia Zukofsky, “Year by Year Bibliography of L.Z.”

CONTENTS

The Periplum

Forrest Read, “The Mathematical Symbolism of Ezra Pound’s Revolutionary Mind”

Akiko Miyake, “The Greek-Egyptian Mysteries in pound’s ‘The Little Review Calendar’ and in Cantos 1-7″

Andrew Clearfield, “Pound, Paris, and Dada”

Carroll F. Terrell, “Mag-Tsze, Thomas Taylor, and Madam ΤΛΗ”

Thomas Taylor, “The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries”

The Explicator

Eva Hesse, “New Light on Old problems”

Franz H. Link, “Two Notes on the Early Poetry”

The Documentary

John J. Nolde, “The Sources for Canto LV”

Ben Kimpel and T. C. Duncan Eaves, “The Sources of the Leopoldine Cantos”

The Biographer

Virgil Geddes, “A Visit to Pound”

John P. Sullivan, “An Afternoon with Ezra”

The Bibliographer

Stephen Fender, “Work in the Progress in the United Kingdom”

The Vortex

Donald Davie, “Ezra Pound and the English”

Peter Schneeman, “Pound’s ‘Englischer Brief’: A Look toward Germany”

Wendy Flory and Jo Berryman, “Report on the MLA Special Session, 1977″

The Reviewer

Stephen Adams (Ezra Pound and Music, ed. Murray Schafer)

Sharon Mayer Libera (Ronald Bush, The Genesis of Ezra Pound’s Cantos)

Hugh Witemeyer (George Bornstein, The Postromantic Consciousness of Ezra Pound)

CONTENTS

The Periplum

Douglas Thompson, “Pound and Brazilian Concretism”

Jo Brantley Berryman, “The Art of the Image”

M. L. Rosenthal, “Pound at His Best: Canto 47″

The Explicator

Akiko Miyake, “A Note on So-shu”

Franz H. Link, “A Note on Samothrace”

The Documentary

Ben Kimpel and T. C. Duncan Eaves, “Sources of Cantos XLII and XLIII”

Carroll F. Terrell, “A Couple of Documents”

The Biographer

Richard Sieburth, “Ideas into Action: Pound and Voltaire”

The Vortex

Diana Surman, “Report on EP Conference”

Mohammed Shaheen, “Pound in Arabic”

Burton N. Hatlen, “Report on Works in Progress”

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CONTENTS

The Periplum

Sanehide Kodama, “The Eight Scenes of Sho-Sho”

William McNaughton, “A Note on Main Form in The Cantos“

The Explicator

Wendy Stallard Flory, “Pound’s Blake and Blake’s Dante”

B. K. Martin, “Ezra Pound and T. E. Lawrence”

Timothy Materer, “Pound’s Vortex”

Robert Hunting, “A Woodnote Wild”

Reno Odlin, “Kati and Antef”

The Documentary

Carroll F. Terrell, “Canto XXXIV: The Technique of Montage”

The Biographer

Felice Chilanti, “Ezra Pound Among the Seditious in the 1940s, translated by David Anderson”

The Reviewer

David M. Gordon (James J. Wilhelm, The Later Cantos of Ezra Pound)

CONTENTS

The Periplum

M. L. Rosenthal, “The Structuring of Pound’s Cantos”

Max Nänny, “Oral Dimensions in Ezra Pound”

Woon-Ping Chin Holaday, “Pound and Binyon: China via the British Museum”

The Explicator

John Espey, “A Note on ‘Nils Lykke’”

David M. Gordon, “Notes and Observations”

The Documentary

John J. Nolde, “The Sources for Canto LIV: Part Two”

The Vortex

Donald Davie, “Sicily in the Cantos”

Leon Surette, “A Case for Occam’s Razor: Pound and Spengler”

Margaret Bates, “EP: Maker of Connections”

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