Monday, September 29, 2014

September 28, 2014- Vorticism

Today we were without a live guest but were joined by Ezra Pound and H. D. Their recorded readings illustrated vorticism, a movement that was founded by artist Wyndham Lewis in reaction to and contrary to imagism and futurism; vorticism is an abstract and non-representational art using the greater energy of the poetic image. "The image is not a picture but a force."This poetry goes "beyond a static representation of the image to express a world of moving energies." Pound wrote about vorticism in an issue of BLAST in 1914. In the first half we played three recordings from Pound, one from the Caedmon recordings and two from Harvard. We discussed Pound's work and its connection to  Asian artists and Buddhism. After the top of the hour Jay read an excerpt from the H. D. book by Robert Duncan who also described Pound's vorticism; perhaps Pound believed that there was one true poem. We ended the show with the H. D. recordings from her "Helen of Egypt." All of these were found on Penn Sound (a great resource for poetry recordings).
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