The Sixth International Pound Conference
This first poetry conference hosted by the University of Maine English Department was not yet a National Poetry Foundation event, but it did prepare the way for all the NPF conferences to follow.
Program
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21
Panel: “Fenollosa’s Theory of Language and Pound’s Ideogram”
Moderator: John Nolde
Co-Chairmen: Sanehide Kodama and Rikutaro Fukuda
Panelists: Gordon Scott Johnson, Akiko Miyake, Akira Yasuhawa
Concert
Mozart, Andante Cantabile, from Symphony 41
Grieg, Sonata in F Major, Opus 8
Joseph Fuchs, Concert Violinist
Lucy Blackman, Pianist
Concert
Troubadour Songs, arranged by Walter Morse Rummel
Early Pound Lyrics, music by Aaron Copland
Michael Ingham, Baritone
Carolyn Horn, Concert Pianist
The Dorians, a chorus of fourteen
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22
Panel: “Keys to The Cantos”
Moderator: Jacob Korg
Panelists: James Wilhelm, Wendy Flory, and George Kearns
Panel: “Ezra Pound and Magic: Old World Tricks in a New World Poem”
Moderator: Michael Alexander
Panelist: Walter Baumann
Panel: “Pound and America: Some British Perspectives”
Moderator: Walter Baumann
Panelists: Marianne Korn, Brendan Jackson, Christopher Matthews
Plenary Session
Edgar Glenn, “Pound and Ovid”
Concert
Basil Bunting, Briggflatts, Scarlatti Sonatas played by Lucy Blackman
Moderator: Hugh Kenner
Concert
Michael Ingham, Carolyn Horn and the Dorians, singing extracts from Cavalcanti and Canto 81
SATURDAY, AUGUST 23
Panel
Moderator: C.F. Terrell
John Espey, “Indexes, Companions and the Like: Or How to Live Dangerously”
August Fruge, “A Publisher’s Vortex: Texts, Scholars, Readers etc.”
Panel
Moderator: Marjorie Perloff
Hugh Witemeyer, “Ezra Pound and Senator Cutting”
E.D. Walkiewicz, “Ezra Pound’s New Mexico Writing”
Daniel Pearlman, “The Pound-Boarh Connection”
Panel
Moderator: Wendy Flory
James Wilhelm, “Where is the Real Arnaut Daniel”
Hans Zimmermann, “An Early Pound Lyric”
Panel
Moderator: Burton Hatlen
Marjorie Perloff, “The Lecture Poem: Criticism as Collage in Pound and John Cage”
Peter Whigham, “Translation: Principles and Techniques”
Plenary Session
Moderator: C.F. Terrell
Hugh Kenner, “Reading The Cantos”
Film
“Ezra Pound: Poets’ Poet”
Concert
Michael Ingham, Carolyn Horn and the Dorians singing “Some Provençal Songs”