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Pound/Williams:Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams choose

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[US] E. Pound in Witemeyer Pound/Williams Correspondence (1996) 8: Here are a list of facts which I and 9,000,000 other poets have spieled endlessly: 1. Spring is a pleasant season. The flowers, etc. etc. sprout, bloom etc. etc.
at spiel, v.1
[US] E. Pound in Witemeyer Pound/Williams Correspondence (1996) 13: Besides, youd [sic] much prefer to scrap with an intellegent [sic] person like myself than with a board of directing idiots.
at scrap, v.
[US] E. Pound in Witemeyer Pound/Williams Correspondence (1996) 42: Lamentable that the two halves of what might have made a fairly decent poet shd. be [...] divided by the fuckin buttocks of the arse... wide atlantic ocean.
at arse, n.
[US] E. Pound in Witemeyer Pound/Williams Correspondence (1996) 37: Then you punk out, cursing me for not being in two places at once, and for ‘seeing no alternative to my own groove’. Which is bilge, just sloppy inaccurate bilge.
at bilge, n.
[US] E. Pound in Witemeyer Pound/Williams Correspondence (1996) 42: ANYHOW blaze away, and more power to your elbow.
at blaze away (v.) under blaze, v.2
[US] E. Pound in Witemeyer Pound/Williams Correspondence (1996) 37: Not that I care a curse for ANY nation as such or that, so far as I know, I have ever suggested that I was trying to write U.S. poetry (any more than you are writing Alexandrine Greek bunk).
at bunk, n.2
[US] E. Pound in Witemeyer Pound/Williams Correspondence (1996) 36: Some evidence that I have ever cursed anything but the faults of American verse. Produce it, you old village cut-up.
at cut-up, n.1
[US] E. Pound in Witemeyer Pound/Williams Correspondence (1996) 37: Then you punk out, cursing me for not being in two places at once, and for ‘seeing no alternative to my own groove’.
at punk out, v.
[US] E. Pound in Witemeyer Pound/Williams Correspondence (1996) 42: ANYHOW blaze away, and more power to your elbow.
at more power to your elbow under power, n.
[US] E. Pound in Witemeyer Pound/Williams Correspondence (1996) 36: Precisely I am an ‘enemy of American verse’. [...] I sweated like a nigger to break up the clutch of old shit-wall, Harper’s, etc.
at sweat like a nigger... (v.) under sweat, v.2
[US] E. Pound in Witemeyer Pound/Williams Correspondence (1996) 54: It is a show down. Those who don’t care 50 dollars a year for the arts, don’t care for MUCH.
at showdown, n.
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