Posted on  UTC 2015-10-01 01:02

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The American modernist poet Ezra Pound was born 130 years ago on 30 October 1885 and died 43 years ago on 1 November 1972.

Manet painted the bar at La Cigale or at Les Folies in that year

she did her hair in small ringlets, a la 1880 it might have been,

red, and the dress she wore Drecol or Lanvin

a great goddess, Aeneas knew her forthwith

by paint immortal as no other age is immortal

la France dixneuvieme

Degas Manet Guys unforgettable

Ezra Pound (1885-1972), The Cantos of Ezra Pound, Faber & Faber, London, 1975; 'The Pisan Cantos', Canto 74, p. 435 (ND: p. 455)

NOTES — red: the colour of the hair of Pound's mistress, Olga Rudge; Aeneas: in the Aeneid, recognized his mother Aphrodite at first glance.
Suzon, the girl behind the bar, Olga and Aphrodite all blended into one.

Image of the month

Un bar aux Folies Bergère

Édouard Manet (1832-1883), Un bar aux Folies Bergère, 1882.
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