The Beautiful Toilet
Ezra Pound * Track #3 On Cathay
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Album Cathay
- #1Preface to Cathay
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- #2Song of the Bowmen of Shu
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- #3The Beautiful Toilet
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- #4The River Song
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- #5
The River Merchant’s Wife: A LetterEzra Pound & Li Po
- #6Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin
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- #7The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance
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- #8Lament of the Frontier Guard
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- #9Exile’s Letter
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- #10Epigraph to Four Poems of Departure
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- #11Separation on the River Kiang
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- #12Taking Leave of A Friend
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- #13Leave-Taking Near Shoku
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- #14The City Of Choan
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- #15South-Folk In Cold Country
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- #16Sennin Poem By Kakuhaku
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- #17A Ballad of the Mulberry Road
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- #18Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu
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- #19To-Em-Mei’s “The Unmoving Cloud”
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The Beautiful Toilet by Ezra Pound (Ft. Mei Sheng)
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Pound’s free translation of a Mei Sheng poem from 140 BCE is given a detailed close reading in Hugh Kenner’s landmark book The Pound Era.
Pound refigures the heavy repetitions of the Chinese into a beautiful English poem, which sits somewhere between familiar, idiomatic English and a fresh, barely...
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Blue, blue is the grass about the river
And the willows have overfilled the close garden.
And within, the mistress, in the midmost of her youth,
White, white of face, hesitates, passing the door.
Slender, she puts forth a slender hand;
And she was a courtezan in the old days,
And she has married a sot,
Who now goes drunkenly out
And leaves her too much alone.
By Mei Sheng, B.C. 140
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When did Ezra Pound release The Beautiful Toilet?
Ezra Pound released The Beautiful Toilet on Fri Jan 01 1915.