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<title><![CDATA[Librivox: Cathay by Pound, Ezra]]></title>
<link>http://librivox.org/cathay-by-ezra-pound/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Cathay poems appeared in a slim volume in 1915. They are, in effect, Ezra Pound’s English translations/interpretations from notebooks written by the Japanese scholar Ernest Fenollosa. Pound, not knowing any Chinese or Japanese at all, promptly created a new and somewhat complex style of translation, as he had done with words from several other languages. The Cathay poems are primarily written by the Chinese poet Li Po, refered to throughout these translations as Rihaku, the Japanese form of his name. These poems came to have a profound influence on 20th Century poetry, spawning, among other things, the Imagist movement, and helped in the generation of widespread interest in Asian literature and thought. Also included in this collection are two poems from Pound’s 1912 collection Ripostes. “The Seafarer” is another of Pound’s experiments in translation, this one from the Anglo-Saxon. (Summary by Alan Davis-Drake) 
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[ The Cathay poems appeared in a slim volume in 1915. They are, in effect, Ezra Pound’s English translations/interpretations from notebooks written by the Japanese scholar Ernest Fenollosa. Pound, not knowing any Chinese or Japanese at all, promptly created a new and somewhat complex style of translation, as he had done with words from several other languages. The Cathay poems are primarily written by the Chinese poet Li Po, refered to throughout these translations as Rihaku, the Japanese form of his name. These poems came to have a profound influence on 20th Century poetry, spawning, among other things, the Imagist movement, and helped in the generation of widespread interest in Asian literature and thought. Also included in this collection are two poems from Pound’s 1912 collection Ripostes. “The Seafarer” is another of Pound’s experiments in translation, this one from the Anglo-Saxon. (Summary by Alan Davis-Drake) 
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title><![CDATA[01 "Song of the Bowmen of Shu" by Pound, Ezra]]></title>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
<itunes:duration>2:24</itunes:duration>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:00:17 -0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[02 "Beautiful Toilet, The" by Pound, Ezra]]></title>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
<itunes:duration>1:7</itunes:duration>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:00:16 -0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[03 "River Song, The" by Pound, Ezra]]></title>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
<itunes:duration>3:19</itunes:duration>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:00:15 -0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[04 "River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter, The" by Pound, Ezra]]></title>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
<itunes:duration>2:14</itunes:duration>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:00:14 -0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[05 "Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin" by Pound, Ezra]]></title>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
<itunes:duration>2:30</itunes:duration>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:00:13 -0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[06 "Jewel Stair’s Grievance, The" by Pound, Ezra]]></title>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
<itunes:duration>1:21</itunes:duration>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:00:12 -0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[07 "Lament of the Frontier Guard" by Pound, Ezra]]></title>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
<itunes:duration>2:3</itunes:duration>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:00:11 -0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[08 "Exile’s Letter" by Pound, Ezra]]></title>
<link>http://www.archive.org/download/cathay_librivox/cathay_08_exiles_letter_pound_64kb.mp3</link>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
<itunes:duration>5:54</itunes:duration>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:00:10 -0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[09 "Four Poems of Departure" by Pound, Ezra]]></title>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
<itunes:duration>2:48</itunes:duration>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:00:09 -0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[10 "City of Choan, The" by Pound, Ezra]]></title>
<link>http://www.archive.org/download/cathay_librivox/cathay_10_city_choan_pound_64kb.mp3</link>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
<itunes:duration>1:16</itunes:duration>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:00:08 -0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[11 "South-Folk In Cold Country" by Pound, Ezra]]></title>
<link>http://www.archive.org/download/cathay_librivox/cathay_11_south_folk_pound_64kb.mp3</link>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
<itunes:duration>1:27</itunes:duration>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:00:07 -0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[12 "Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku" by Pound, Ezra]]></title>
<link>http://www.archive.org/download/cathay_librivox/cathay_12_sennin_poem_pound_64kb.mp3</link>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
<itunes:duration>1:31</itunes:duration>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:00:06 -0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[13 "Ballad of the Mulberry Tree, A" by Pound, Ezra]]></title>
<link>http://www.archive.org/download/cathay_librivox/cathay_13_ballad_mulberry_tree_pound_64kb.mp3</link>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
<itunes:duration>1:30</itunes:duration>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:00:05 -0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[14 "Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu" by Pound, Ezra]]></title>
<link>http://www.archive.org/download/cathay_librivox/cathay_14_old_idea_choan_pound_64kb.mp3</link>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
<itunes:duration>2:18</itunes:duration>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:00:04 -0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[15 "To Em-Mei’s : The Unmoving Cloud" by Pound, Ezra]]></title>
<link>http://www.archive.org/download/cathay_librivox/cathay_15_unmoving_cloud_pound_64kb.mp3</link>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
<itunes:duration>2:30</itunes:duration>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:00:03 -0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[16 "Seafarer, The" by Pound, Ezra]]></title>
<link>http://www.archive.org/download/cathay_librivox/cathay_16_seafarer_pound_64kb.mp3</link>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
<itunes:duration>7:7</itunes:duration>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:00:02 -0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[17 "Alchemist, The" by Pound, Ezra]]></title>
<link>http://www.archive.org/download/cathay_librivox/cathay_17_alchemist_pound_64kb.mp3</link>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
<itunes:duration>4:41</itunes:duration>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:00:01 -0000</pubDate>
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