CANTO LI

“NO, hell NO, Ez no angler, NOTHING bores me more than thought of slimily detaching food from a ’ook. But the blinkink MIND.”

Ezra Pound to Eva Hesse, 18 June 1951. Hesse 83.

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CANTO XLV [usury and its effects on human creativity]

CANTO XLVII [human intelligence imitating the natural precision of nature on land and water: the ploughman and the fisherman]