POUND

Of Marcello Veneziani
Marcello Veneziani held the 16 November 2018, at the Goldoni Theater in Venice, a conversation about Ezra Pound, before the theater show Ezra in the cage”. We publish a summary of it.
Here is the Poet. He's crazy, it's cursed, it is prophetic, he is a martyr to his vision, he is silent, it is hieratic, it is a sacred animal. He had all these requirements Ezra Pound which also had a face, the gaze and aura of the poet. In fact they considered him crazy and locked him in a mental hospital for thirteen years. They caged him and then interned him because he was cursed, on the wrong side. He was a prophet in the delirium of his poetic and political visions, and in his condemnation of usury. It then closed in a long, profound silence, like a defeated oracle, locked in the mysteries of Eleusis, when did the time for silence come?.
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