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But the \"Go, little book\" type of envoy (from the French \u003Ci\u003Eenvoyer, \u003C\/i\u003E\"to send\", same root as the envoy sent by a government) has been on my mind recently, ever since I came across the exhilirating envoy by Russell Banks which I used as the title for this post, and it started me thinking, what better way to follow a post on the art of the dedication than with one on the art of the envoy?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-6xyq8ZpVCtU\/VFqo7iYRyRI\/AAAAAAAAAqc\/L1jTInPTBTo\/s1600\/Ovid.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-6xyq8ZpVCtU\/VFqo7iYRyRI\/AAAAAAAAAqc\/L1jTInPTBTo\/s1600\/Ovid.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EThe envoy dates back to classic Roman literature, meaning that it has been around for over 2000 years. Ovid, the greatest poet of the Augustan Age, affixed a touching envoy to his book \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1446966\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ETristia\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (\u003Ci\u003ESorrows\u003C\/i\u003E), written from exile in what we now call Romania, but the Romans referred to as \"beyond the Danube\", by which they meant, at the outskirts of the civilised world, where the emperor had sent him for \"a poem and a misunderstanding\" (said Ovid).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe envoy opens like this (I include the Latin because English translations of Latin poetry always sound too chatty - so just before you read the English, say stirringly aloud \"Ibis in urbem!\"):\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EParue—nec inuideo—sine me, liber, ibis in urbem:\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003Eei mihi, quod domino non licet ire tuo!\u003C\/i\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Little book -- I won't resent it -- go without me to the city\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhere alas, your master is not allowed to go...\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut of course he resented it. A man of culture and refined habits, witty and urbane, Ovid found banishment among the (semi) barbarians -- who didn't even know Latin -- a cruel punishment. Cruellest of all, he never got to follow his book back to Rome, dying in exile.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy the nineteenth century, the envoy had become a trope, its more unexceptional manifestations ripe for mockery, as Lord Byron did with the efforts of the rather paltry poet laureate of his time, Robert Southey.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9780140422160\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"syndetics-lc\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9780140422160\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EFrom \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1765662\"\u003EDon Juan\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/i\u003E(1819)\u003Ci\u003E:\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\"Go, little book, from this my solitude!\u003Cbr \/\u003EI cast thee on the waters – go thy ways!\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd if, as I believe, thy vein be good,\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe world will find thee after many days.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESouthey's read, and Wordsworth understood,\u003Cbr \/\u003EI can't help putting in my claim to praise—\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe four first rhymes are Southey's every line:\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor God's sake, reader! take them not for mine.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe twentieth century! War, carnage, decay, disillusion, experimentation, modernism! If anyone was in the thick of that it was Ezra Pound, and he got it all, and Art too, into his revisitation of Edmund Waller's famous 17th century envoy \"Go, Lovely Rose\" (set to music by Henry Lawes), a poem firmly in the \u003Ci\u003Ecarpe diem\u003C\/i\u003E tradition, which began:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGo, lovely Rose—  \u003Cbr \/\u003ETell her that wastes her time and me,  \u003Cbr \/\u003EThat now she knows,  \u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen I resemble her to thee, \u003Cbr \/\u003EHow sweet and fair she seems to be...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere's Pound's \"Envoi\" from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2617546\"\u003EHugh Selwyn Mauberley\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(1919):\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9780811217330\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"syndetics-lc\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9780811217330\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EGo, dumb-born book,\u003Cbr \/\u003ETell her that sang me once that song of Lawes:\u003Cbr \/\u003EHadst thou but song\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs thou hast subjects known,\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen were there cause in thee that should condone\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven my faults that heavy upon me lie\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd build her glories their longevity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETell her that sheds\u003Cbr \/\u003ESuch treasure in the air,\u003Cbr \/\u003ERecking naught else but that her graces give\u003Cbr \/\u003ELife to the moment,\u003Cbr \/\u003EI would bid them live\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs roses might, in magic amber laid,\u003Cbr \/\u003ERed overwrought with orange and all made\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne substance and one colour\u003Cbr \/\u003EBraving time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETell her that goes\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith song upon her lips\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut sings not out the song, nor knows\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe maker of it, some other mouth,\u003Cbr \/\u003EMay be as fair as hers,\u003Cbr \/\u003EMight, in new ages, gain her worshippers,\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen our two dusts with Waller's shall be laid,\u003Cbr \/\u003ESiftings on siftings in oblivion,\u003Cbr \/\u003ETill change hath broken down\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll things save Beauty alone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhere could one possibly go after that, you might find yourself asking. Well, that's what I'm here for! Here, closing the circle and leading us back to Russell Banks, are two dazzling envoys from the second half of the twentieth century:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9780810150713\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"syndetics-lc\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9780810150713\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2949840\"\u003EWilliam Meredith\u003C\/a\u003E, \"Envoy\":\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGo, little book. If anybody asks\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy I add poems to a time like this,\u003Cbr \/\u003ETell how the comeliness I can’t take in\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf ships and other figures of content\u003Cbr \/\u003ECompels me still until I give them names;\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd how I give them names impatiently,\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs who should pull up roses by the roots\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat keep him turning on his empty bed,\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe smell intolerable and thick with loss.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2947394\"\u003ERobert Creeley\u003C\/a\u003E, “Envoi”:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9780520256200\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"syndetics-lc\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9780520256200\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EParticulars they want,\u003Cbr \/\u003Eparticulars they\u003Cbr \/\u003Efucking well will\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eget, love. For openers,\u003Cbr \/\u003Eyou—the stars\u003Cbr \/\u003Eearth revolves about,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethe galaxies their in-\u003Cbr \/\u003Estruments neglect. I\u003Cbr \/\u003Ewalk down a road\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eyou make ahead, not\u003Cbr \/\u003E(no negative) there ex-\u003Cbr \/\u003Ecept my body finds\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eit. Love, love,\u003Cbr \/\u003Elove, swirls—myriad\u003Cbr \/\u003Einsects hum, the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eair softens, the night\u003Cbr \/\u003Eis here. So empty\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethese days with-\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eout you, a box\u003Cbr \/\u003Ewith nothing in it. I\u003Cbr \/\u003Eam waiting, you\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eare coming, so what’s\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethe world but\u003Cbr \/\u003Eall of it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd here we are back at Russell Banks. I don't know if anyone else out there has written an envoy in prose, but this is one it would be tough to compete with. It comes at the end of Banks's novel\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1060190\"\u003EContinental Drift\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003C\/i\u003Ea tale of our times which mixes \"low comedy and high seriousness\" (as someone said about Flannery O'Connor's novel \u003Ci\u003EWise Blood, \u003C\/i\u003Ewhich it reminded me of), sardonic descriptions of domestic dissatisfaction, low-end jobs, moral corners being cut, and suddenly, apocalypse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The world as it is goes on being itself. Books get written -- novels, stories and poems stuffed with particulars that try to tell us what the world is, as if our knowledge of people like Bob Dubois and Vanise and Claude Dorsinville will set people like them free. It will not. Knowledge of the facts of Bob's life and death changes nothing in the world. Our celebrating his life and grieving over his death, however, will. Good cheer and mournfulness over lives other than our own, even wholly invented lives -- no, especially wholly invented lives -- deprive the world as it is of some of the greed it needs to continue to be itself. Sabotage and subversion, then, are this book's objectives. Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E*****\u003Cbr \/\u003EPost script:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe American poet Robert Creeley (of\u0026nbsp;Pound-Olson-Zukofsky-Black Mountain lineage),\u0026nbsp;sojourned in New Zealand in the 1970s (a trip organised by Alistair Paterson), and Auckland Libraries' Sir George Grey Special Collections has a number of books of his poetry relating to that time, including \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1945193\"\u003EThe Dogs of Auckland\u003C\/a\u003E, a limited edition artist's book by the Holloway Press, which has this note in the catalogue, a poem by itself: \"The binding is cloth spine with Canson Mi Teintes paper-covered boards, \u0026amp; the case \u0026amp; casing in are by Bound to Last, Auckland.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI realise that Canson Mi Teintes is just a mezzo-tinto, half-tint, but what it said to me when I first saw it, and what it still wants to say to me, is \"Song, you tempt me!\""},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3243764040154740020\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/go-my-book-and-help-destroy-world-as-it.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3243764040154740020"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3243764040154740020"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/go-my-book-and-help-destroy-world-as-it.html","title":"“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.” "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-6xyq8ZpVCtU\/VFqo7iYRyRI\/AAAAAAAAAqc\/L1jTInPTBTo\/s72-c\/Ovid.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-7878255175088695250"},"published":{"$t":"2008-08-22T03:30:00.000+12:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-01-11T02:34:54.753+13:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Bel Esprit"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ezra Pound"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hemingway"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Karen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"T.S. Eliot"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The Waste Land"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ezra Pound's Bel Esprit"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Thanks to all those people who answered the call I sent out in my last post and contributed dedications. Have a look at the comments, everyone! I liked Moocho's leap into the realm of poetry which started me thinking about how back during the snows of yesteryear entire poems were dedications, \"To Lucasta, going to the wars\", the noble Lovelace's riddle, or the gorgeous ripe fruit which is Andrew Marvell’s “To his coy mistress”, with that once-in-a-lifetime line “Had we but world enough, and time”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat revolutionary poet TS Eliot loved classical citations and the epigraph Moocho quotes from \"The Waste Land\" is from the Satyricon. It is followed by a simple “to Ezra Pound, il miglior fabbro”. This phrase from Dante's Purgatory does not mean “the better craftsman” as I have seen in notes. It means “The best craftsman” .\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-iDp_V_IOrBA\/UISV6Lf4MeI\/AAAAAAAAJCM\/XZrLsTcOhys\/s1600\/index.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-iDp_V_IOrBA\/UISV6Lf4MeI\/AAAAAAAAJCM\/XZrLsTcOhys\/s320\/index.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"75\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E You can view Pound's enormous contribution to the Ars Wastelandia by requesting \u003Ci\u003EThe Waste Land: a facsimile and transcript of the original drafts including the annotations of Ezra Pound\u003C\/i\u003E from the library. The reproduction is so good that it's almost spooky to hold it in your hands, especially my copy, which I was able to get at a library bargain book sale because of its coffee stains. \"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons\" it whispers to me.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI am one of the many who prefer Eliot to Pound as a poet, although I want a dedicated minority of Pound fanatics, just like I want there to be Mac users around. For personality, Pound has it all over Eliot.  In \u003Ci\u003EA Moveable Feast\u003C\/i\u003E, Hemingway’s belles-lettres memoir about being young and poor and eager in Paris in the 1920’s, there is a great piece about Pound founding Bel Esprit, in partnership with an American expat who has a little Greek temple in her garden. Through Bel Esprit, Pound is going to solicit money from artistic souls in order to spring \"Mr Eliot\" from his job at the bank so he can concentrate on writing poetry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHemingway campaigns enthusiastically for Bel Esprit because it is so important to Ezra, although, with that streak of meanness noted by  many of his contemporaries (but not Ezra), he makes a point of annoying Ezra by pretending to confuse Mr Eliot the poet with Major Eliot, a radical economist Pound admired. Then Eliot unexpectedly wins a literary prize and gets out of the bank by himself. Hemingway writes tenderly “It was always a disappointment to me that we had not been able to get the Major out of the bank by Bel Esprit alone, as in my dreams I had pictured him as coming, perhaps, to live in the small Greek temple and that maybe I could go with Ezra when we would drop in to crown him with laurel.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEzra Pound’s grave, which I saw in the San Michele Cemetery in Venice, is marked by a slab of marble with nothing on it but his name in a plain Roman font.  Ivy grows all around and visitors have left arrangements of pebbles, possibly representing the stepping stones in Japanese gardens. It would be good to place a rice cake there too, and a nightingale singing above.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-FSabeQydU_I\/UISWCBhtVDI\/AAAAAAAAJCY\/Yp7gpA6YAHY\/s1600\/ezra.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-FSabeQydU_I\/UISWCBhtVDI\/AAAAAAAAJCY\/Yp7gpA6YAHY\/s320\/ezra.jpg\" height=\"118\" width=\"190\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \"I wrapped my tears in an ellum leaf\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand left them under a stone\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd now men call me mad because I have thrown\u003Cbr \/\u003Eall folly from me, putting it aside\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo leave the old barren ways of man.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7878255175088695250\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/ezra-pounds-bel-esprit.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/7878255175088695250"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/7878255175088695250"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/ezra-pounds-bel-esprit.html","title":"Ezra Pound's Bel Esprit"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"tosca"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-DKeaBNqmKUo\/VBStvJvL4cI\/AAAAAAAAR4M\/ZsfOjoSDymI\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-iDp_V_IOrBA\/UISV6Lf4MeI\/AAAAAAAAJCM\/XZrLsTcOhys\/s72-c\/index.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});