Christian Molenaar

Tag: ezra pound

  • Musaceae Equinox

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    My new album Musaceae Equinox is finally here. Read more

  • Summer Stars

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    Maybe it was secretly a blessing that night when you couldn’t see the Big Dipper. Read more

  • The Torment of Another’s Grief

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    After a Canzoni by Pound, After a Ballata by Dante Ezra Pound might be stalking me from the past. Read more

  • Easter, 2025

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    I have met them at close of dayComing with vivid facesFrom counter or desk among greyEighteenth-century houses.I have passed with a nod of the headOr polite meaningless words,Or have lingered awhile and saidPolite meaningless words,And thought before I had doneOf a mocking tale or a gibeTo please a companionAround the fire at the club,Being certain Read more

  • The Sundered Realms

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    Here let thy clemency, Persephone, hold firm,Do thou, Pluto, bring here no greater harshness.So many thousand beauties are gone down to AvernusYe might let one remain above with us. Read more

  • Not Unlike a River

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    “Et huiusmodi stantiae usus est fere in omnibus cantionibus suisArnaldus Danielis et nos eum secuti sumus.”Dante, De Vulgari Eloquio, II. 10. Read more

Thought:

“Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions.”

Frantz Fanon

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