Schloss Brunnenburg is a castle in the province of Bolzano-Bozen, in northern Italy, exactly in Tirolo. Originally built circa 1250, it was completely restored by Boris and Mary de Rachewiltz, who made it their home in the mid-20th century
Mary de Rachewiltz is the daughter of the poet Ezra Pound and the violinist Olga Rudge. Pound stayed at the castle in 1958 on his return from America and wrote the last 6 of his 116 "Cantos" of The Cantos. He died here in 1972.
Today the castle is not only home to the de Rachewiltz family, but also houses "The Ezra Pound Centre for Literature" where students come from all over the world to study the poet's works.
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Brunnenburg (Castel Fontana), eretto nel XIII secolo, fu più volte distrutto e ricostruito nel corso della sua storia. Dal 1958 divenne la residenza del famoso poeta americano Ezra Pound, che risiedette a Tirolo sino alla morte (1972). Al Brunnenburg Pound compose gli ultimi sei dei suoi 116 "Cantos". Nel 1974 Brunnenburg fu scelto come sede del Museo agricolo, che tratta tematiche quali l'etnologia, l'etnografia e l'arte popolare. Con l'ausilio di documentazioni fotografiche e filmati vengono qui illustrati i vari processi lavorativi in uso nell'agricoltura e nell'artigianato.
Roma
Piazza dei Quiriti
Fontana delle Cariati
Dettaglio...
Opera dello scultore Attilio Selva. Modelle di Anticoli Corrado (il paese di mio padre, vicino Roma, leggende famigliari narrano che una delle Cariati sia appunto una mia bisnonna)
Ciò che sai amare rimane, il resto è scoria
ciò che sai amare non ti sarà strappato
ciò che sai amare è il tuo vero retaggio
“It rests me to be among beautiful women.
Why should one always lie about such matters?
I repeat:
It rests me to converse with beautiful women
Even though we talk about nonsense,
The purring of the invisible antennae
Is both stimulating and delightful.”
This is another of our ancient loves.
Pass and be silent, Rullus for the day
Hath lacked a something since this lady passed;
Hath lacked a something. ‘Twas but marginal.
She passed and left no quiver in the veins, who now
Moving among the trees, and clinging
in the air she severed,
Fanning the grass she walked on them, endures
Helix 13/14 (1983), edited by Les Harrop and Noel Stock: Ezra Pound in Melbourne.
Apart from the extensive documentation of the Melbourne Pound circle (William Fleming and Noel Stock), this includes a dossier on Pound's Italian activities prepared by Tim Redman.
One of the choicest items in the Redman dossier is his translation of an Italian essay that Pound published in Il Mare, March 18, 1933, entitled "Ecrevisse?" The essay begins, "Natalie Barney maintained in Paris that the feminine form of écrivain [writer] is écrevisse [crawfish]." Redman reports that the essay appeared on the same page as "an open letter to Pound from Marinetti, in which Marinetti talks about masculine (i.e., fascist) and feminine forces in writing, and criticizes some of Pound's collaborators for demonstrating the latter." Pound's essay, then, responds with a decidedly non-feminist celebration of women writers and editors. For instance, of Harriet Monroe, editor of Poetry, he writes:
"The talent of Monroe―conscientiousness and goodwill, we might even say a maternal instinct toward poetry―in whom critical sense was lacking, but who performed the miracle of extracting the money needed from the pockets of the biggest butchers in Chicago to carry on a review, one might say the bulletin of the union or the profession of American poetry."
And he also writes this, right after a short paragraph in praise of Marianne Moore: "The Duce sees the signs of the fall of the Anglo-Saxon world in matriarchy; perhaps he should have said spinsterarchy."
The issue also includes a brief selection of documents prepared by Mary de Rachewiltz regarding Pound's grandfather, Thaddeus Coleman Pound (a congressman from Wisconsin in the mid-nineteenth century), and an essay by Timothy Materer on the resumption of Pound's correspondence with Wyndham Lewis during the St. Elizabeths years. And other stuff.
CSC Repertory. 136 East 13th Street, New York, NY 10003. Elektra by Ezra Pound. Directed by Carey Perloff. Cast: Veronica Cartwright, William Duff-Griffin, Nancy Marchand, Isabel Monk, Joe Morton, Lola Pashalinski, Pamela Reed, Jaime Sanchez and Members of the 1987 Conservatory. November 1- Nobember 29
