Re: Ezra Pound: the cold coffee incident

Will Dockery wrote:
"I had withdrawn in forest and my song
Was swallowed up in leaves..."
-Robert Frost
 [from the review of "A Boy's Will" by Robert Frost]:
 "I remember that I was canoeing and thirsty and I put into a shanty for
water and found a man who had no water and gave me cold coffee instead.
And he didn't understand it, he was from a minor city and he "just set
there watchin' the river" and didn't "seem to want to go

didn't care for anything else. and so I presume he entered into Anunda.
And I remember Joseph Campbell telling me of meeting a man on a
desolate waste of bogs, and he said to him, "it's rather dull

and the man said, "Faith, ye can sit on a middan and dream stars."
 And that is the essence of folk poetry with distinction between America
and Ireland. And Frost's book reminded me of these things..."
-Ezra Pound [excerpted from "Into my Own" by John Evangelest