Cathay: Poems by Ezra Pound

Canada / 2002 / Experimental / 18’30”I0301213

Cathay: Poems by Ezra Pound
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SYNOPSIS

In 1915, Ezra Pound translated a small collection of ancient Chinese poems written approximately 1,000 BC-670 AD, which he entitled "Cathay". Dramatization of a number of these verses, removed from their traditional eastern setting, and transported into that of a western society in 2002.

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