Ezra Pound Centennial Conference
Program
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19
English Panel One
Chair: Hans Zimmermann
Walter Baumann, “EP’s Reception in the German-speaking Worldâ€
Marianne Korn, “EP: The Dance of Wordsâ€
Martin Kayman, “EP: The Color of His Moneyâ€
English Panel Two
Chair: Walter Baumann
David Moody, “What Constitutes a Cantoâ€
Lionel Kelly, “GK: The Book as Ball of Lightâ€
Ian Bell, “Pound, Mauberley and Jamesâ€
Poets Panel One
Chair: Donald Davie
Robert Creeley, William Corbett, Don Hall
Poets Panel Two
Chair: James Laughlin
Allen Ginsberg, Desmond Egan, Eric Mottram
THURSDAY, JUNE 20
Session One
Chair: Akiko Miyake
David Gordon, “The Buddhist-Neoconfucian Concept of Mindâ€
John Nolde, “EP and the Ta Hio: The Making of a Confucianâ€
Session Two
Chair: Burton Hatlen
Kathryne Lindberg, “Tradition and Heresy: EP and T.S. Eliotâ€
Walter Sutton, “Coherence in The Cantos and William James’s Pluralistic Universityâ€
James Longenbach, “Pound and Yeats at Stone Cottageâ€
Panel
Chair: C.F. Terrell
Mary de Rachewiltz, “Remembering Pound the Poetâ€
Hugh Kenner, “Pound’s Second Centuryâ€
Panel
Chair: Sanehide Kodama
Hiroshi Izubuchi, “Aesthetics of the Moment in Short Poemsâ€
Akiko Miyake, “Noh and The Cantosâ€
Sachiko Yoshida, “Pound, Yeats, and Nohâ€
Toward a New Biography
Chair: David Gordon
Jerome Kavka, “The St. E’s Yearsâ€
James Wilhelm, “EP’s Four Grandparentsâ€
Blossoms From the East
A concert-staged opera by Sally Lutyens
Ludlow Hallman, Music Director
FRIDAY, JUNE 21
Session One
Chair: Desmond Egan
Wendy Flory, “EP and Economicsâ€
Father G. Rice, “EP and Del Mar’s Monetary Systemsâ€
Richard Sawyer, “Monetary Literacy in The Cantosâ€
Session Two
Chair: Marjorie Perloff
Pat Willis, “Avec Ardeur: EP and Marianne Mooreâ€
Celeste Goodridge, “MM Looks at Ezra Poundâ€
Burton Hatlen, “Pound and His Heirsâ€
Panel
Chair: Hugh Kenner
Donald David, “Poundians Nowâ€
M.L. Rosenthal, “Discovering EPâ€
Panel
Chair: M.L. Rosenthal
Philippe Mikriammos, “The Paris Yearsâ€
James Laughlin, “EP: The Lighter Sideâ€
Panel
Chair: Mary de Rachewiltz
Ronald Bush, “Rereading EPâ€
Marjorie Perloff, “EP and the Prose Tradition in Verseâ€
Hugh Witemeyer, “David Hsin-fu Wandâ€
The Women of Trachis
Tr. by Ezra Pound
Special score written by Don Stratton
Produced by The Maine Masque
Directed by Al Cyrus
SATURDAY, JUNE 22
Session One
Chair: Wendy Flory
Richard Taylor, “The Variant Readings of The Cantosâ€
Mohammad Shaheen, “Islamic (Arabic) Sources in Poundâ€
Session Two
Chair: Pat Willis
Tim Redman, “EP’s Libraryâ€
Kay Davis, “Three Techniques Made Newâ€
Terri Joseph, “Recent Critics of EPâ€
Panel
Chair: C.F. Terrell
Robert Creeley, Donald Davie, Allen Ginsberg, Hugh Kenner, James Laughlin, Marjorie Perloff, Mary de Rachewiltz, M.L. Rosenthal, Olga Rudge, Walter Sutton
