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Ezra Pound's Sargasso Sea

October 30, 2021 by DAVID M KATZ in Ezra Pound, “Portrait d’une Femme”, blank verse, iambic pentameter

In honor of the 136th birthday of Ezra Pound, I want to rhapsodize about him and “Portrait d’une Femme,” one of my favorite poems of his.

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October 30, 2021 /DAVID M KATZ
Ezra Pound, Blank verse, free verse, iambic pentameter, “Portrait d’une Femme”
Ezra Pound, “Portrait d’une Femme”, blank verse, iambic pentameter
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Ned Balbo’s Family Narrative

June 02, 2021 by DAVID M KATZ in Ned Balbo, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Edgar Allen Poe, D.H. Lawrence, Anthony Hecht, New Criticism, New Formalism, Richard Ellmann, Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell

Ned Balbo’s finest lyrics contain vivid fragments of this overarching epic, which amounts to a lifelong quest for identity amid a tangle of secrets, half-truths, and outright fabrications stemming from his adoption.

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June 02, 2021 /DAVID M KATZ
Ned Balbo, William Butler Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, W.H. Auden, Anthony Hecht, New Criticism, New Formalism
Ned Balbo, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Edgar Allen Poe, D.H. Lawrence, Anthony Hecht, New Criticism, New Formalism, Richard Ellmann, Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell
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