The art of Ezra Pound

“I stood still and was a tree amid the wood . . .”

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (1885-1972)

American expatriate poet

This exquisite fragment stopped me from passing over one of Pound’s early works, it’s an arresting image that can focus your imagination in several directions….

I choose to react to this insight:

I am one, I can be among many, I can transform myself, I can be one….

From “The Tree” in Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound, Michael King, ed., New Directions Publishing, 1982.

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