The Sixth International Pound Conference

This first poetry conference hosted by the 91±¬ÁÏ English Department was not yet a National Poetry Foundation event, but it did prepare the way for all the NPF conferences to follow. 

Program

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21

Panel: “Fenollosa’s Theory of Language and Pound’s Ideogramâ€

Moderator: John Nolde

Co-Chairmen: Sanehide Kodama and Rikutaro Fukuda

Panelists: Gordon Scott Johnson, Akiko Miyake, Akira Yasuhawa

Concert

Mozart, Andante Cantabile, from Symphony 41

Grieg, Sonata in F Major, Opus 8

Joseph Fuchs, Concert Violinist

Lucy Blackman, Pianist

Concert

Troubadour Songs, arranged by Walter Morse Rummel

Early Pound Lyrics, music by Aaron Copland

Michael Ingham, Baritone

Carolyn Horn, Concert Pianist

The Dorians, a chorus of fourteen

FRIDAY, AUGUST 22

Panel: “Keys to The Cantosâ€

Moderator: Jacob Korg

Panelists: James Wilhelm, Wendy Flory, and George Kearns

Panel: “Ezra Pound and Magic: Old World Tricks in a New World Poemâ€

Moderator: Michael Alexander

Panelist: Walter Baumann

Panel: “Pound and America: Some British Perspectivesâ€

Moderator: Walter Baumann

Panelists: Marianne Korn, Brendan Jackson, Christopher Matthews

Plenary Session

Edgar Glenn, “Pound and Ovidâ€

Concert

Basil Bunting, Briggflatts, Scarlatti Sonatas played by Lucy Blackman

Moderator: Hugh Kenner

Concert

Michael Ingham, Carolyn Horn and the Dorians, singing extracts from Cavalcanti and Canto 81

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23

Panel

Moderator: C.F. Terrell

John Espey, “Indexes, Companions and the Like: Or How to Live Dangerouslyâ€

August Fruge, “A Publisher’s Vortex: Texts, Scholars, Readers etc.â€

Panel

Moderator: Marjorie Perloff

Hugh Witemeyer, “Ezra Pound and Senator Cuttingâ€

E.D. Walkiewicz, “Ezra Pound’s New Mexico Writingâ€

Daniel Pearlman, “The Pound-Boarh Connectionâ€

Panel

Moderator: Wendy Flory

James Wilhelm, “Where is the Real Arnaut Danielâ€

Hans Zimmermann, “An Early Pound Lyricâ€

Panel

Moderator: Burton Hatlen

Marjorie Perloff, “The Lecture Poem: Criticism as Collage in Pound and John Cageâ€

Peter Whigham, “Translation: Principles and Techniquesâ€

Plenary Session

Moderator: C.F. Terrell

Hugh Kenner, “Reading The Cantosâ€

Film

“Ezra Pound: Poets’ Poetâ€

Concert

Michael Ingham, Carolyn Horn and the Dorians singing “Some Provençal Songsâ€