They're easy to get on tape.... but at audible.com (and likely
elsewhere) one can get them in something resembling MP3... I took those
and put them on CD: so I can hear ol' Ez no matter what the device.
 Well, except for the Odes, which I've only ever found on tape.

Cummings' "you pays your money" etc. is something I quote frequently to
my work associates.

Pound growls, sings, mocks, woos, incants.... his reading is truly
amazing: a perfect reflection of his art.

"... and that was an anagram for Vitorio Emanuelle Rei D' Italia,
and the guards couldn't stop 'em"

What you say about Eliot is true, to a point... though I like Eliot's
rendition of Prufrock, and a tape I have of Murder in the Cathedral,
though not performed by Eliot, is a great listen.

But to me, Pound's reading of HSM (the whole) veritably blows away
anything I've ever heard read by anybody anywhere (including various
fairly masterful attempts at Homer and Sophocles)... which relates to a
conversation I studiously avoided, by jingo:

There died a myriad,
And of the best, among them,
For an old bitch gone in the teeth,
For a botched civilization.

Though, in the same vein, by jingo, is Cummings lilting,

Jesus tried to tell him,
He wouldn't believe it
...
And General,
yes Maam,
Sherman
Tried to tell him
he wouldn't believe it
.....
It took a Nipponized bit of the old 3rd Avenue El in his head
then he believed it...

(I'm probably merely paraphrasing.. haven't heard Cummings a long time.).

charles moyer wrote:

>Likewise. Have they put those Caedmon recordings on CD? I have both LP's.
>
>"Mr. Styrax - MR. HECATOMB STYRAX" Pound roars. Eliot sounds like he's got a
>corncob up his ass when he reads. cummings intones his --
>
>"why must itself up every of a park
>
>anus stick some quote statue unquote to
>prove that a hero equals any jerk
>who was afraid to dare to answer 'no'?
>
>quote citizens unquote might otherwise
>forget(to err is human;to forgive
>divine)that if the quote state unquote says
>'kill' killing is an act of christian love.
>
>'Nothing' in 1944 A D
>
>'can stand against the argument of mil
>itary necessity' (generalissimo e)
>and echo answers 'there is no appeal
>
>from reason'(freud)- you pays your money and
>you doesn't take your choice. Ain't freedom grand"
>
>
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>>From: Dirk Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: Virgo Made Male
>>Date: Tue, Feb 18, 2003, 7:27 PM
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>>His recordings have actually helped keep me alive during low points,
>>from MC to HSM and a few Cantos to the Odes.
>>
>>Tim Romano wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>If you have not heard a recording of Pound reading Moeurs
>>>Contemporaines...
>>>it's  worth the audition.
>>>Tim Romano
>>>
>>>
>>>
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