XXVIth Ezra Pound International Conference
Ezra Pound and the Green World Brunnenburg Dorf Tirol / Tirolo Italy July 7-11, 2015
Photo: Walter Baumann
Sponsors:
Brunnenburg Agricultural Museum http://www.brunnenburg.net
University of New Orleans http://inst.uno.edu/Writing/brunnenburg.cfm Department of English: http://english.uno.edu/
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Conference Staff Co-Conveners
Walter Baumann, University of Ulster Siegfried Walter de Rachewiltz, University of Innsbruck John Gery, University of New Orleans
Conference Advisory Board
Massimo Bacigalupo, Università di Genova Walter Baumann, University of Ulster Diana Collecott, University of Durham John Gery, University of New Orleans (Secretary) Alan Golding, University of Louisville David Moody, University of York Richard Parker, University of Gaziantep William Pratt, Miami University of Ohio Caterina Ricciardi, Università di Roma Tre Stephen Wilson, Universidade de Coimbra
Conference Planning Committee
Michael de Rachewiltz, Brunnenburg Nikolaus de Rachewiltz, Brunnenburg Winery Brigitte de Rachewiltz, Brunnenburg Petra Grünberger Rose Robitailler Casey E. Horgan
University of New Orleans
David Guidry, Ezra Pound Center Associate Director Jarred Marlatt, International Education Program Associate
EPIC Website
Nirachon Kerdkidsadanon, Universidad de Salamanca
Conference Website: https://ezrapoundintlconference26.wordpress.com/ The Ezra Pound International Conference is now also on Facebook
(photo: Walter Baumann)
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26th EZRA POUND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Tuesday, 7 July 2015 10 am – 12 noon: Tour of Schloss Tirol Meeting Place: Front of Castle Ticket Office, Schloss Tirol Guided by S. W. de Rachewiltz Special EPIC 2015 price of €8 per person. If you haven’t signed up or paid with your registration, you can still join this tour and pay at the entrance.
3:00 pm: Tour of Brunnenburg Meeting Place: Castle gate, Brunnenburg Guided by S. W. de Rachewiltz There is no additional fee, but please mark on the EPIC Registration form. If you forgot to mark the form, you can still turn up at the Meeting Place, spaces permitting.
4:30 – 6:00: London Cantos Reading Group Seminar: Learning from the Green World: Canto 81 Meeting Place: Brunnenburg Ron Bush, St. John’s College, University of Oxford; Helen Carr, Goldsmith College, University of London; Mick Sheldon, Independent Scholar, London; and others Open to the public
6:30-8:30 pm: Wine Reception and Cook-out: A Toast to Mary de Rachewiltz Meeting Place: Brunnenburg €30. Reserved in advance only. If you did not add this event on your Registration Form but now wish to do so, contact Nikolaus de Rachewiltz at
[email protected]
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26th EZRA POUND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Wednesday, 8 July 2015 Brunnenburg 9:00 am – 4:00 pm: Registration. Brunnenburg Castle Gate 9:30 – 10:45 Session 1: Opening Plenary: Ezra Pound and the Green World John Gery, University of New Orleans Welcome and Introduction Siegfried Walter de Rachewiltz, University of Innsbruck “Grampaw“Agriculturalist Walter Baumann, University of Ulster Ezra Pound and Trees 10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 – 12:30 Session 2: Plenary: Mary de Rachewiltz and the Pisan Cantos Chair: Massimo Bacigalupo, Università di Genova Ron Bush, University of Oxford & David Ten Eyck, University of Lorraine Dearest Father: Reading, Editing, Visiting Pisa (1945): A Celebration of Mary de Rachewiltz’s Role as the First Reader, Editor of the Pisan Cantos Mary de Rachewiltz, Brunnenburg, Dorf Tirol Words of Welcome 12:30 – 2:00 Buffet Lunch, Brunnenburg 2:00 – 3:15 Parallel Sessions 3A 3B 3C 3A. Pound and Provence Chair: Stephen Romer, Université de Tours Alice Cheylan, UFR de Lettres et Sciences Humaines, La Garde Nature and Nostalgia: Ezra Pound’s Walking Tour in Southern France Mary Maxwell, Truro, Massachusetts Ford, Biala, Pound and the Philosophy of the Kitchen Garden Stoddard Martin, London (read by Diana Collecott, University of Durham) Sacred Landscape: Lago di Garda in the Work of D. H. Lawrence and Ezra Pound 3B. Early Pound, Nature, and the Image Chair: Justin Kishbaugh, Duquesne University Christos Hadjiyiannis, Wolfson College, Oxford Hulme, Pound and the “natural connection between thing and sign” Helen Carr, Goldsmith College, University of London The “germinal universe” in “Psychology and the Troubadours” and Pound’s Early Imagism Miho Takahashi, Kansai University A Reconsideration of Pound’s “One Image” Poem on Nature, from the Japanese Haiku Perspective 4
3C. Classical Measures and Transformations in The Cantos Chair: Caterina Ricciardi, Università di Roma Tre Orla Polten, St. John’s College, Cambridge Canto 2: The Metrics of Metamorphosis Peter Liebregts, Leiden University “Damned to you Midas, Midas lacking a Pan!”: Ezra Pound’s Use of Pan Krista Rascoe, University of Texas at Dallas Goddesses of the Green World: Making and Begetting in Pound’s Pisan Cantos 3:15 – 3:45 Coffee Break 3:45 – 5:00 Parallel Sessions 4A 4B 4C 4A. Pound, Green Italy, and The Spirit of Romance Chair: Mark Byron, University of Sidney Maria Luisa Ardizzone, New York University Making Green the Middle Ages: Ezra Pound from The Spirit of Romance to his Correspondence with Etienne Gilson Andrea Colombo, Milano Ezra Pound and Saint Francis Anderson Araujo, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus Ezra Pound’s Mediterranean Religio of Nature 4B. Nature’s Place in The Fifth Decad of Cantos XLII-LI Chair: Akitoshi Nagahata, Nagoya University Giuliana Ferreccio, Università degli Studi di Torino Pound’s Iconic Acts: Natural Language in the Middle Cantos Ralf Lüfter, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen CONTRA NATURAM: A Reading of Canto 45 Kent Su, University College London Human Union with Nature in Chinese Landscape Painting: The Religio-Aesthetic Tradition of Taoism and the Seven Lakes Canto 4C. Pound and Hemingway Chair: William Pratt, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Tateo Imamura, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University Pound and Hemingway in Rapallo in 1923 Akiko Manabe, Shiga University Pound’s Debt to Hemingway as Reflected in his Neglected Works: Hemingway’s Poetry and Across the River and into the Trees Evan Hulick, State University New York at New Paltz “The sunlight glitters . . . Like the church”: The Natural and Supernatural World of Pound and Hemingway Dinner on Your Own
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8:00 – 9:30 pm: “A Packet for Ezra Pound” and Poetry Reading Meeting Place: Pfarranger (vicarage green), adjacent to the church, Dorf Tirol (weather permitting) Otherwise: Dorf Tirol Library (same location) Catherine Paul, Clemson University, presents a celebration of W.B. Yeats’s “A Packet for Ezra Pound” Poetry Reading: David Cappella, Hilary Davies, Mary de Rachewiltz, Patrizia de Rachewiltz, Kenneth Fields, John Gery, Kevin Kiely, Justin Kishbaugh, Mary Maxwell, David Moody, Biljana Obradovic, Stephen Romer, Ron Smith
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26th EZRA POUND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Thursday, 9 July 2015 Brunnenburg 9:00 am – 4:00 pm: Registration. Brunnenburg Castle Gate 9:30 – 10:45 Parallel Sessions 5A 5B 5C 5A. “I will get you a green coat out of China”: Pound and China Chair: Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia David Ewick, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University Before the Tree Greened Itself: The Chinese Written Character, Atlantic Crossings, Texts Mislaid, and the Machinations of a Divinely-Inspired Char Woman Mark Byron, University of Sidney “no fishin’, just watchin’ the water”: Pound’s Poetic of Rustification Dorsey Kleitz, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University “Mt Taishan @ Pisa as Fujiama at Gardone”: Pound’s Topography of Exile 5B. Pastoral Pound I: Creatures, Clouds, and Ash-trees Chair: Michael Coyle, Colgate University William Pratt, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio The Grasshopper and the Ant: Pound’s Versions of Pastoral Jo Brantley Berryman, California Institute of the Arts Pound’s Green World: Mimesis, Metaphor, and Magic Stefano Maria Casella, International U. of Language & Media, Milan From “La Fraisne”to“Ygdrasail”: Metamorphosis and Mythologizing the Ash-Tree 5C. Pound and Early Modernism Chair: Anderson Araujo, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus Mick Sheldon, London Some ‘obscure’ Roots of the Green World: Allen Upward’s Influence on Pound’s Vital Universe and “The Serious Artist” Rosina Martucci, University of Salerno Ezra Pound and Percy Wyndham Lewis: Bonds between Poetry and Art in the “Vortex” of World War One Michael Biondi, Moraitis School (ret.), Athens Speaking in Tongues: Technique in Mauberley as Pre-Figuration of The Cantos 10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 – 12:30 Parallel Sessions 6A 6B 6C 6A. “Learn of the green world”: Pedagogy and The Cantos Chair: Marjorie Perloff, University of Southern California Michael Kindellan, Universität Bayreuth Difficulties and Contradictions of Reading The Cantos as a Pedagogical Text Joshua Kotin, Princeton University To Teach without a Pedagogy: A Paradox of The Cantos 7
Alan Golding, University of Louisville Respondent: On Pound and Pedagogy 6B. Pastoral Pound II: Clouds, Pastures, Earth, and Sky in The Cantos Chair: Peter Liebregts, Leiden University H. K. Riikonen, University of Helsinki La Nuvoletta: Clouds and the Rain in Pound’s Poems and Translations Akitoshi Nagahata, Nagoya University “Pasturage excellent”: Emperor Kangxi’s Description of the Mongolian Land in Canto 60 Leonor Maria Martinez Serrano, Universidad de Cordoba Poetry the Colour of the Earth and the Sky: Reading What Is in Ezra Pound’s Cantos 6C. Translating Pound Translating Chair: Francesca Cadel, University of Calgary Kritish Rajbhandari, Northwestern University Translation as Criticism: A Reading of the Paratexts in Ezra Pound’s Cathay Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec, Université de Caen Found in Translation: Pound’s Idea of Cure for Western Culture? Youngmin Kim, Dongguk University, Seoul Ezra Pound and Walter Benjaminian Pure Language 12:30 – 2:00 Buffet Lunch, Brunnenburg 2:00 – 3:15 Parallel Sessions 7A 7B 7C 7A. Pound’s Painterly Nature Chair: Viorica Patea, Universidad de Salamanca Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia Art and Nature in Pound’s Poetry and Veronese’s Art Caterina Ricciardi, Università di Roma Tre Ezra Pound’s Floral Backgrounds Stephen Romer, Université de Tours Painterly Meditation in Three Cantos and Beyond 7B. Pound and Music (organized by the Ezra Pound Society) Chair: Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh Gemma Moss, University of Manchester The Politics of Pound’s Writing on Music Charles Mundye, Sheffield Hallam University “All neath the moon”: Versions of Transformation in Pound’s Cavalcanti Eloisa Bressan, Aix-Marseille Université Pound and Birds: Bernart de Ventadour’s Skylark in The Cantos 7C. Gold Thread in the Pattern: Technique and Design in The Cantos Chair: Giuliana Ferreccio, Università degli Studi di Torino Jack Baker, Durham University Organic Intuitions: The Irrational Element in Pound 8
Jonathan Pollock, Université de Perpignan Energy Creates Pattern: The Dynamics of Cut and Flow in The Cantos Phillip Crymble, University of New Brunswick Ezra Pound’s The Cantos as Nostos and the Construction of Postmodernism 3:15 – 3:45 Coffee Break 3:45 – 5:00 Session 8: Plenary: Ritual, Response, and Reverberations in EP’s Poetry Chair: Walter Baumann, University of Ulster Massimo Bacigalupo, Università di Genova “This Is Grain Rite”: Pound’s Green Language of Ritual Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley Taking Fascist Poetics Seriously: Why the Green World Could Not Suffice for the Early Cantos. Marjorie Perloff, University of Southern California “Raising the Referential Temperature”: Poundian Reverberations in Brazilian Concrete Poetry Dinner on Your Own
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26th EZRA POUND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Friday, 10 July 2015 Brunnenburg 9:00 am – 12:30 pm: Registration. Brunnenburg Castle Gate 9:30 – 10:45 Parallel Panel Sessions 9A 9B 9C 9A. Pound and the Visual Arts (organized by the Ezra Pound Society) Chair: Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia Justin Kishbaugh, Duquesne University A Few (more) Don’ts: Laurence Binyon, Ezra Pound, and the Poles of Imagism Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia Rectangular Personalities: Vorticist Photography and Ezra Pound, Alvin Langdon Coburn and Wyndham Lewis Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh Between Browning and Picasso: Cubist Technique in the Early Cantos 9B. For the Record: Pound, Science and Politics in the 1930s Chair: Robert von Hallberg, Claremont McKenna College Barry Ahearn, Tulane University Pound and Paul de Kruif Elspeth A. Green, Princeton University Scale and Science: Eugenic Confusion in the Works of Ezra Pound Svetlana Nedeljkov, University of New Brunswick Ezra Pound in the U.K. Libraries and Archives: New Findings 9C. Pound and the Ideogrammic Method Chair: Miho Takahashi, Kansai University Hidetoshi Tomiyama, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo Ideogram and Buddhism: A Return of the Repressed Fernando Pérez, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago Ideograms in the Pisan Cantos as Pathosformeln: On Ezra Pound and Aby Warburg Andrew Houwen, University of Reading The “Ideogrammic Method” and the Concrete Poetry of Niikuni Seiichi 10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 – 12:30 Parallel Panel Sessions 10A 10B 10C 10A. Pound, American Culture, and the Green World Chair: Tim Redman, University of Texas at Dallas Stephen Wilson, Universidade de Coimbra Scriptor Cantilenae and Pater Patriae Alec Marsh, Mühlenberg College The Ideological Origins of the Wheat in Our Bread Party in the Green World Francesca Cadel, University of Calgary The Nostalgia of the American Green World in Ezra Pound’s Poetics 10
10B. Thrones, Nature, and Symbols Chair: Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec, Université de Caen Gerd Schmidt, Universität Freiburg im Breisgau “Sumerian” Hieroglyphs in Cantos 90, 97, and 100 Kristin Grogan, University of Oxford “This is grain rite”: Agriculture in Thrones Alex Pestell, Berlin, Germany “The root is that charter”: Nature and the Constitution 10C. Twenty-first Century Pound Chair: David Cappella, Central Connecticut State University Norman MacAffee, New York Ezra Pound in Patria Mia Richard Emanuel, London Ezra Pound and the ABC of Leading: The Poet as Practical Inspiration in the Workplace Andy Trevathan, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville Teaching Pound in a Red State 12:30 – 2:00 Lunch on Your Own
2:45 pm: Excursion to Tschengls: Inauguration of the “Three Columns” : “Aram vult nemus” Meeting Place: To be announced, Dorf Tirol. Please plan to meet the bus by 2:45. Bus leaves promptly at 3:00 pm. If you haven’t marked and/ or paid for this tour on your Registration Form, check at the Castle Gate.
8:00 pm: Conference Banquet Meeting Place: Brunnenburg (weather permitting) Otherwise: Gasthaus Mair am Turm, Dorf Tirol
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26th EZRA POUND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Saturday, 11 July 2015 Brunnenburg 9:00 am – 12:00 pm: Registration. Brunnenburg Castle Gate 9:30 – 10:45 Parallel Panel Sessions 11A 11B 11C 11A. Pound’s Companions: Tom and Hilda Chair: Catherine Paul, Clemson University Robert von Hallberg, Claremont McKenna College T. S. Eliot as Literary Critic Demetres Tryphonopoulos, Brandon University, Manitoba The Paterean Roots of Ezra Pound and H. D.’s “Discourse on Aestheticism” Carol Shloss, University of Pennsylvania H. D., Ezra Pound and the Birth of “das Marienkind” 11B. Pound’s Post-War Advocates: MacLeish, Porter, and Pasolini Chair: Barry Ahearn, Tulane University Daniel Braun, Princeton University Poetry and Opinion in Pound and His Critics Ted Wojtasik, St. Andrews University Katherine Anne Porter’s Never-Ending Support for Ezra Pound Sean Mark, Universities of Tübingen, Bergamo & Brown Pound and/or Pasolini 11C. How Pound Translates: Shades of Green Chair: Svetlana Nedeljkov, University of New Brunswick Ali Zarei, Bolkhyre, Bushehre Province, Iran Ezra Pound and the Use of Haiku in His Poems Giovanna Epifania, Bari Green in Translation: Ezra Pound and the Stilnovo Images of the Green World Biljana D. Obradović, Xavier University of Louisiana “Love and Green Tea Parties”: Pound’s Influence on Contemporary Serbian Poetry 10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 – 12:30 Parallel Panel Sessions 12A 12B 12C 12A. Poets Poundian Mid-Century Chair: Alan Golding, University of Louisville Kenneth Fields, Stanford University The Green World of Ezra Pound and Yvor Winters Nicoletta Asciuto, Durham University A Japan of the Mind: Basil Bunting’s Modernist Adaption of Chōmei’s Hōjōki Bernard Sawicki, Order of Saint Benedict A Benedictine Interpretation of Nature in Poetry: The Affinities between some Verses by Ezra Pound and Silja Walter 12
12B. Pound, Noh, and Sophocles Chair: Evelyn Haller, Doane College Yoshiko Kita, Chuo University, Tokyo. Pound’s Mugen Noh and the “Olive Tree” Kathryn Stergiopoulos, Claremont McKenna College The Many Languages of the Image in Pound’s Women of Trachis Claudio Sansone, Chicago Unnatural Parentage: Ezra Pound’s Women of Trachis and Elektra 12C. Pastoral Pound III: Bowers and Hills Chair: Stefano Maria Casella, International U. of Language & Media, Milan Roberta Capelli, University of Trento “In the green deep of an eye” (91/631): From Courtly Bowers to the Garden of Light John Gery, University of New Orleans What Is a Temple for? Simultaneity and Fortuna in Canto 97 12:30 – 2:00 Buffet Lunch, Brunnenburg 2:00 – 3:15 Parallel Panel Sessions 13A 13B 13A. The Poetry on/of Pound’s Family: Olga, Mary and Patrizia Chair: Diana Collecott, University of Durham Anne Conover, Washington, D.C. Olga Rudge: Pound’s Muse and the Circe/Aphrodite of The Cantos Martina Kolb, Susquehanna University Not Silence, but Restraint: Discretions on the Poetry of Mary de Rachewiltz Viorica Patea, Universidad de Salamanca Patrizia de Rachewiltz’s Own "Life Studies": My Taishan and the Green World. Confessions in the Pound Tradition 13B. Late Pound: Drafts & Fragments Chair: Jo Brantley Berryman, California Institute of the Arts Kevin Kiely, University College Dublin “In my green time” and the Return to Imagism: Towards a Definition of “Paradiso” in Drafts & Fragments Dave Cappella, Central Connecticut State University Nature as Empty Space: The Mystery of Nature in Drafts & Fragments Rhett Forman, University of Dallas A Mind Leaping Like Dolphins: Ezra Pound and the Psychology of Pierre Janet 3:15 – 3:45 Coffee Break 3:45 – 5:15 Session 14: Plenary: Ends and Beginnings Chair: A. David Moody, University of York Richard Sieburth, New York University Sero te amavi: On the Late Pound/Rudge Venice Notebooks (1962-1972) Tim Redman, University of Texas at Dallas 13
Inlaws and Outlaws: A Tale of Two Homesteads: The Loomis Family in America Emily Mitchell Wallace, Bryn Mawr College Pound’s “salad days” in William Penn’s “greene country Towne” (Illustrated) 5:20 – 6:30: Business Meeting Chairs: John Gery, University of New Orleans Walter Baumann, University of Ulster
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26th EZRA POUND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Sunday, 12 July 2015 Brunnenburg
Excursion to Brixen and Gais: Meeting Time and Place: 9:00 am, Central Bus Stop, Dorf Tirol Estimated Time of Return to Dorf Tirol: 6:00 pm Itinerary:
This excursion will extend the celebration of Mary de Rachewiltz’s 90th birthday by taking participants to the places of her birth and childhood, with references to Pound’s visits to the Sudtirol along the way: Departure by bus at 9 am from Dorf Tirol will first go for a short stop at Brixen, Mary's birthplace. This portion of the trip will include visits to Neustift library, Kloster Neustift, and the Dom. The bus will then continue to Gais where visitors will walk on the Kulturweg and have lunch at Schloss Neuhaus. After lunch, there will be a visit to the church, with the return to Dorf Tirol by 6 pm. (Cost: €45/ $50/ £34/ per person) Bookings for this excursion need to be made in advance. Additional information and final itinerary will be available at the Castle Gate. See maps: Geography: http://gis2.provinz.bz.it/geobrowser/?project=geobrowser_pro&view=geobrowser_pro_at las-b&locale=de For Hiking etc. here you find better maps: http://www.alpenvereinaktiv.com/de/tourenplaner/ And https://www.sentres.com/en/south-tyrol/map Gais: https://www.sentres.com/en/southtyrol/map#lat=46.8405&lng=11.94512&zoom=16&maptype=mtk_sentres_de
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