Photo: Franz Larese, Erker-Galerie, Easter 1971, Burano, Italy

PoemTalk Podcast #41, discussing Ezra Pound's "Canto III," March 15, 2011

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PoemTalk Podcast #12, discussing Ezra Pound's "Cantico del Sole," November 14, 2008

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

Ezra Pound's Cantos is published by New Directions Publishing Corp. They can be contacted at editorial[at]ndbooks.com or permissions[at]ndbooks.com.

Pound's Poems and Translations is published by the Library of America.

PennSound Ezra Pound page edited by Richard Sieburth

The Sound of Pound: A Listener's Guide , by Richard Sieburth

Interview with Richard Sieburth by Al Filreis, May 22, 2007, (44:15): MP3

Note: The bracketed page numbers for non-Cantos materials are taken from the Library of America edition of Pound's Poems and Translations. The Canto page numbers are taken from the thirteenth printing (1995) of the New Directions edition of The Cantos of Ezra Pound.

The Harvard Vocarium Readings, Recorded in Cambridge, Mass., May 17, 1939

Sestina: Altaforte (with drums) (3:40): MP3; text [105] The Seafarer (with drums) (7:08): MP3; text [236] Homage to Sextus Propertius, Section VI (2:44): MP3 [535-36] Hugh Selwyn Mauberley [549-59]: [ text E.P.: Ode Pour L'Election de Son Sepulchre (2:45)MP3 II, IV, & V (2:59): MP3 Yeux Glauques (1:11): MP3 Envoi (1919) (from "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" at the end of Part I) (1:32): MP3 First two sections of Part II of the poem ["1920 (Mauberley)"] (3:07): MP3 Cantico del sole (0:58): MP3 [572] [text] Canto XVII ("So that the vine burst from my fingers') (7:00): MP3 [76-79] Canto XXX [147] (0:58): MP3 Canto XLV [229-30] (3:12): MP3 Canto LVI (with drums) [301-310] (19:30): MP3

"Cantico del Sole" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 12.

Thanks to Don Share, Curator in the G.E. Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard, for assistance.

From the Radio Speeches, recorded in Rome, Italy, January or February, 1942

Canto XLVI [231-235] (17:08): MP3

Recorded by the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service of the FCC [Federal Communications Commission] on February 12, 1942. The editors wish to thank Ben Friedlander.

The Caedmon Recordings, recorded in Washington, D.C., June 12, 13, 26, 1958

Exile's Letter [254] (5:08): MP3 The Gypsy [296] (0:53): MP3 Cantico del Sole [572] (0:49): MP3 [text] Moeurs Contemporaines [522-526] (5:50): MP3 / [text] Hugh Selwyn Mauberley [549-556] (10:45): MP3 / [text] Hugh Selwyn Mauberley [557-562] (6:06): MP3 [text] Canto I [3-5] ("And then went down") (5:32): MP3 Canto IV [13-16] ("Palace in smoky light") (7:31): MP3 Canto XXXVI [177-180] ("A lady asks me") (6:41): MP3 Canto XLV ("With Usura") [229-30] (3:13): MP3 Canto LI (""Shines / in the mind of heaven") [250-52] (3:56): MP3 Canto LXXXIV ("8th October: Si tuit li dolh elh plor") [557-560] (5:35): MP3 From Canto LXXVI ("And the sun high over horizon ...") [477-480] (4:11): MP3 Canto XCIX ( "Till the blue grass turn yellow") [714-732] (23:37): MP3

These 1958 recordings are from Ezra Pound Reads by Ezra Pound. Copyright © 1960, 1969, 1993 by HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Used by permission of HarperCollins.

"Cantico del Sole" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 12.

"Ezra Pound: Readings and Recollections," with D. G. Bridson, April 1959

Complete Recording (55:12): MP3

Singles:

Homage to Sextus Propertius VI (2:27): MP3 Homage to Sextus Propertius VIII (2:42): MP3 Canto 1 (5:32): MP3 Canto 45 (2:46): MP3 Confucian Ode 98 “He waited me by our gate-screen" (0:44): MP3 Confusion Ode 105 “La Madone des Wagon-Lits" (1:00): MP3 Confusion Ode 57 “Epithalium (Sidney’s Sister)” (1:51): MP3 Confucian Ode 208 “Cl-ang, cl-ang go the bells” (0:55): MP3 Canto 49 [Not included in broadcast] (3:31): MP3

The Bayrischer Rundfunk Recordings, recorded at Schloss Brunnenburg, Tirolo di Merano, Italy, December 1959

Impressions of François-Marie Arouet (de Voltaire), I (“Phyllidula and the Spoils of Gouvernet”) [315] (0:45): MP3 Impressions, II (“To Madame du Châtelet”) [316] (1:21): MP3 Impressions, III (“To Madame Lullin”) [317] (0:39): MP3 Impressions, III (“To Madame Lullin,” German translation) [317] (0:46): MP3 “Der Wirbel” (German trans. of “Phanopoeia, I”) [565] (0:45): MP3 “Es starben” (German trans. of “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, I, V”) [552] (0:40): MP3 Unedited tapes of the 1959 Brunnenburg recordings: include tracks 1-6 above, as well as Pound reading the German trans. of “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, I, I and dialogue between Pound, Eva Hesse, and Mike O’Donnell. (17:31): MP3

Recorded by Eva Hesse and Mike O’Donnell for the Bayrischer Rundfunk. Used by permission of Eva Hesse.

The Spoleto Readings

Recorded in Spoleto, Italy, summer 1967

Canto III ("I sat on Dogana's steps") [11-12] (2:55): MP3 Canto XVI ("And before hell mouth") [68-75] (13:06): MP3 Canto XLIX ("For the seven lakes ...") [244-45] (3:04): MP3 Canto LXXXI ("Zeus lies in Ceres' bosom") (First Reading) [537-52] (9:56): MP3 Canto LXXXI (Second Reading) [537-52] (10:07): MP3 Canto XCII ("And from this mount were blown" [638-642] (6:36): MP3 Canto CVI ("And was her daughter like that") [772-775] (6:24): MP3 From Canto CXV ("The scientists are in terror") [814] (1:10): MP3

"Canto III" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 41.

The Confucian Odes

Recorded in Spoleto, Italy, summer 1970 (?)

Hid! Hid! [755] (0:47): MP3 O omen tree (0:40): MP3 Kylin's foot (0:22): MP3 In fleecy coats [763] (0:41): MP3 Lies a dead deer [765] (0:35): MP3 Dry grass, in vale [792] (0:23): MP3 Alikter-Ole Brer Rabbit watchin' his feet [792]: MP3 Hep-Cat Chung [795] (0:45): MP3 On comes her car [807] (1:07): MP3 Garden peach [810] (0:45): MP3 I climb the knoll [810] (0:52): MP3 RATS [812] (1:00): MP3 Lonely pear tree [817] (0:25): MP3 Chariots, rank on rank [819] (0:37): MP3 What! No clothes? [823] (0:37): MP3 Lord of the Light's axe [860] (0:35): MP3 Yaller bird [861] (0:53): MP3 Heaven's worry [872] (1:51): MP3 Let the Great Cart alone [885] (0:29): MP3 The year puts on her shining robe [894] (1:05): MP3 Flies, blue flies on a fence rail [898] (0:32): MP3 Folk worn out [936] (2:10): MP3 Show of respect [941] (6:17): MP3 Compassionate heaven [962] (1:37): MP3 Thick, all in mass [986] (1:23): MP3

Please note that the bracketed page numbers for the Confucian Odes are keyed to page numbers in Library of America's Poems & Translations. Confucian Odes ©1970 by Olga Rudge.

An Angle, Recorded in Venice, ca. 1970 or 1971

Canto XVII [From "A boat came" [77] through "In the gloom" (78)](1:40): MP3 Canto XXV [From "side toward the pizza" to "finish said canvas" (119)] (1:19): MP3 Canto XXVI [Three segments: from "And that year" (123) through "beards of those greeks" (124); from "To the Marquis" through Carpathio/pictore (127); from "And I came here" through "taking light in the darkness" (121)] (4:32): MP3

Recorded by Santomaso for the Erker-Galerie, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Miscellaneous Recordings, San Ambrogio and Venice, 1962-1972

Redondillas [LOA, 175-182] (20:31): MP3 from Canto LXXX (from "Nenni, Nenni" [515] through "the nutriment" [519]) (8:38): MP3 From Canto LXXXVIII (from "It was Saturday" [597] through "The Major done told them" [602]) (10:05): MP3 Canto XCIII ("A man's paradise is his good nature" [643-652]) (17:32): MP3 From Canto XCVI (from "Kredemon" [671] through "oikonomia" [680]) (20:05): MP3 from Canto CXI (from "Cold mermaid" through "Rothar" [803]) (1:49): MP3 from Canto CXII [804-805] (2:36): MP3 Addendum for C [818-19] (4:11): MP3 Now sun rises in Ram sign [820] (1:00): MP3 Dante Speech (1965) with readings from T.S. Eliot and Robert Lowell (6:04): MP3 Dante Inferno XV — “Bruno Latini” — tr. Lowell (1964-Rapallo) (3:02): MP3

The readings were recorded by Olga Rudge from 1962-1972 and remastered under her supervision by Robert Hughes in the fall of 1985. They are available through the assistance of Robert Hughes and by courtesy of Siegfried Walter de Rachewiltz. Special thanks to Richard Sieburth.

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Complete recording (3:18): MP3

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