Get your IMAGISTES here

Thanks to the MIT Comparative Media Studies graduate class of 2010 and Nick Montfort, it is now possible to read Ezra Pound's anthology Des Imagistes (1912) on-line. Enjoy!

http://www.desimagistes.com/about.html

Other links:

Ezra Pound, "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste," Poetry (March 1913).

Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro," Poetry (April 1913).

Robert von Hallberg on poetry during wartime

Worth a read:  Robert von Hallberg, "Poets and the People: Reflections on solidarity during wartime," Boston Review (September/October 2008).  

In the essay, von Hallberg notes that Jorie Graham's Overlord suggests that soldiers in Normandy died, not for the Nation or the just cause, but simply for each other.  Soldiers die "...for no government, no ideology, only for paratroopers.  They die willingly because of the immediate conditions of military engagement.  Theirs is a morbid fraternity."

Listen to Ezra

A voluminous collection of Ezra Pound reading his work is available from Penn Sound, University of Pennsylvania.  A large collection of recordings of other poets is also available.  The Video selection includes the proceedings of the Louis Zukofsky Centennial Conference, Columbia University and Barnard College (2004).

Donald Hall's Paris Review interviews

Donald Hall edited The Paris Review from 1953-1962.  He started the series of interviews known as "The Art of Poetry," and interviewed, among others, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.  The archives of the interviews are now available on-line.  

http://www.theparisreview.org/literature.php

The text of Hall's interview with T.S. Eliot, "The Art of Poetry, #1," The Paris Review 21 (Spring-Summer 1959):

http://www.theparisreview.org/media/4738_ELIOT4.pdf

The text of his interview with Ezra Pound, "The Art of Poetry, #5," The Paris Review 28 (Summer-Fall, 1962):

http://www.theparisreview.org/media/4598_POUND.pdf