A BALLAD OF THE MULBERRY ROAD
The sun rises in south east corner of things
To look on the tall house of the Shin
For they have a daughter named Rafu,
(pretty girl)
She made the name for herself: "Gauze Veil,"
For she feeds mulberries to silkworms.
She gets them by the south wall of the town.
With green strings she makes the warp of her basket,
She makes the shoulder-straps of her basket
from the boughs of Katsura,
And she piles her hair up on the left side of her head-piece.
Her earrings are made of pearl,
Her underskirt is of green pattern-silk,
Her overskirt is the same silk dyed in purple,
And when the men going by look on Rafu
They set down their burdens,
They stand and twirl their moustaches.
--anonymous (Han Dynasty, 1st century); translated by Ezra Pound
The sun rises in south east corner of things
To look on the tall house of the Shin
For they have a daughter named Rafu,
(pretty girl)
She made the name for herself: "Gauze Veil,"
For she feeds mulberries to silkworms.
She gets them by the south wall of the town.
With green strings she makes the warp of her basket,
She makes the shoulder-straps of her basket
from the boughs of Katsura,
And she piles her hair up on the left side of her head-piece.
Her earrings are made of pearl,
Her underskirt is of green pattern-silk,
Her overskirt is the same silk dyed in purple,
And when the men going by look on Rafu
They set down their burdens,
They stand and twirl their moustaches.
--anonymous (Han Dynasty, 1st century); translated by Ezra Pound
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JinSays on September 8, 2008Just Pound, or Lowell too?
Are you into symbolism entirely?
Cantos, do you understand any of them?
Okay, I won't stir up trouble, just wondering if it was the movement, or just Pound. I happen to think Doolittle's work was wonderful, and I understand it better, maybe because she was a woman, but who knows? Black Mountain Arts? Olsen fan? Marianne Moore?
IT takes a genius to learn how NOT TO TALK, and for as long as he was silent, the pen flowed incredibly. . . I always found that scintillating truth about Pound intriguing.
Not many people here even know who he was.
Stop in when you're on again, we'll talk more Pound.
As I said, the man was a genius.
But then, you knew that, right?
Peace,
Jin
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Saaara on May 1, 2006haha score... and a trade off.
