Ezra Pound / In a Station of the Metro

IN A STATION OF THE METRO

by Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound / En una estación de metro

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

Martin Espada, “How to Read Ezra Pound”

At the poets’ panel,
after an hour of poets
debating Ezra Pound,
Abe the Lincoln veteran,
remembering
the Spanish Civil War,
raised his hand and said:
If I knew
that a fascist
was a great poet,
I’d shoot him
anyway.

The Trouble Ball is the new collection from Martín Espada. The Academy of American Poets has published an excerpt of the title poem, and W.W. Norton has put “Blasphemy” online. Blog This Rock posted “Isabel’s Corrido,” and I’ve also found video taken last year of Espada’s first public reading of that poem.

http://beatrice.com/wordpress/category/poetry/page/11/

Ezra Pound / Alba

ALBA
by Ezra Pound

As cool as the pale wet leaves

of lily-of-the-valley

She lay beside me in the dawn.