Ezra Pound's Sargasso Sea
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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These passages from Charles Reznikoff’s “Autobiography: New York” are self-contained Jewish koans, ripe for contemplation.
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