Pound's Fascist Cantos (1997)

Cover design: Jack Ross

Ezra Pound’s Fascist Cantos (72 & 73) together with Rimbaud’s “Poets at Seven Years Old.” Trans. Jack Ross. Auckland: Perdrix Press. [ii] + 42 pp. [25 numbered copies].

Contents:

[Ezra Pound]: Canto LXXII: Presences

[Ezra Pound]: Canto LXXIII: Cavalcanti / Republican Dispatches

Samples:

Canto LXXII: Presences

Canto LXXIII: Cavalcanti / Republican Dispatches

Online Text:

Perdrix Press

Available:

Perdrix Press
6A Hastings Rd
Mairangi Bay
North Shore City 0630
Auckland

RRP: $NZ 5.00 [Out of print]

Reviews & Comments:

1. John O’Connor. JAAM 12 (1999): 126-28.
   

   
   … Ross’s versions are alive with Pound’s energy and convictions; they spark and jar ... It is a tribute to Jack Ross and an indication of his capability as a translator that these pieces stand fresh and intelligent even in their perversity, a perversity of which Ross is acutely aware.



2. Massimo Bacigalupo. "Correspondence: Pound’s Italian Cantos." Ka Mate Ka Ora 4 (September 2007): 154-57.
   

   
   … Your final quotation of Cockram doesn’t seem to make it clear enough that she is misguided in faulting the moral stance of these cantos. I find it strange that many readers insist that they are inexcusable, when passages like the Jew-baiting in canto 52 are much worse than anything to be found in them. Written as they were in a turbulent period, they may be said to exhibit moderation. I would also question your calling them ‘fascist cantos’. ‘War Cantos’ or ‘Italian Cantos’ would be more appropriate. Pound’s take on Fascism was very peculiar, in fact he thought he had to explain its merits to Italians! Besides, cantos 31-71 and 74-84 are no less fascistic than these. Anyhow, I find your commentary very astute, especially concerning the opening of the Pisan cantos and Pound’s use of persona.

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Killing Time (1997)

Cover design: Jack Ross

Killing Time. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 1997. [iv] + 16 pp.

Contents:

Auckland by Night / Brussels by Day
One Version of Pastoral
The Prospect of the Bungy-Jump
On the Occasion of Wet Snow
A Road through Pylons
Killing Time
Morning at a Language School
Recovery
C. P. Cavafy’s The God Abandons Antony
Petrarch’s Laura I-III
Life in a Chinese Novel

Online Text::

Perdrix Press

Available:

Perdrix Press
6A Hastings Rd
Mairangi Bay
North Shore City 0630
Auckland

RRP: $NZ 2.00 [out of print]

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Short Stories

Birkenhead (March '06)

Contents:

List of Abbreviations:

• [N] = Nights with Giordano Bruno (2000)
• [P] = The Perfect Storm (2000)
• [M] = Monkey Miss Her Now (2004)
• [T] = Trouble in Mind (2005)
• [E] = EMO (2008)
• [K] = Kingdom of Alt (2010)
• [GS] = Ghost Stories (2019)
• [H] = Haunts (2023)

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Stories in Order of Composition:
(1996-2023)

1. Robinsonade (18/8-9/10/96) [M]
2. The Great New Zealand Vortex (26/2-10/5/97 / 4/03) [M]
3. Adiós DOS (2/7-4/9/97) [M]
4. Grafton Amours (20/1/98) [N]
5. Tango Summer (4/11-4/12/98) [M]
6. The Great Hunger (8/10/99) [N]
7. The Storm (3/7-5/8/2000) [P]
8. Tahiti in 1978 (22/9-17/10/2000) [M]
9. Ars Combinatoria (30/10-25/12/2000) [T]
10. A Strange Day at the Language School (7-30/6/01) [M]
11. The Red Room (28-30/8/01) [M]
12. The Yellow Room (31/8-1/9/01 / 1-5/6/03) [M]
13. The Blue Room (2-5/9/01) [M]
14. The Scam (25/12/01-13/9/02) [GS]
15. On Love (29/7-2/8/03) [M]
16. Bird-girl (30/7-2/8/03) [M]
17. The Money Pit (3/8/03) [M]
18. Waiwera (4/8/03) [M]
19. Haiku Diary (4/3-1/4/04; 29/8-12/9/05) [K]
20. Notes found inside a text of Bisclavret (16/11/04-16/9/05) [K]
21. Trauma: Journal (21/7-5/8/05 & 14/4-21/5/98) [K]
22. The Isle of the Cross (18/9-4/12/05) [K]
23. Finding His Stash (29/9-15/10/05) [K]
24. The Purloined Letter (5-31/10/05) [K]
25. The Cat: Extract from EMO (15-22/8/06) [E]
26. Fever-dreams: from Ovid in Otherworld (31/3/07) [E]
27. Before the Disaster (30/11/07-14/2/08) [K]
28. Coursebook found in a Warzone: A Whodunit (11/6/08-11/2/09) [K]
29. The Pedestrian Crossing (6/2008) [K]
30. Featherston (1-17/1/11) [GS]
31. Eketahuna (7-13/12/11) [GS]
32. Leaves from a Diary of the End of the World (6/2-27/4/13) [GS]
33. Miss Herbert (6-10/11/14) [H]
34. Is it Infrareal or is it Memorex? (11-17/11/14) [GS]
35. Company (13-14/12/14) [GS]
36. The Classic New Zealand Ghost Story (17/1/15-25/7/16) [GS]
37. On the Road to Nowhere (18/2-1/12/15) [H]
38. General Grant in Paeroa (12/9-24/11/15) [GS]
39. Brothers (20-23/12/15) [GS]
40. Catfish (14-28/12/17) [GS]
41. The Cross-Correspondences: Paragraphs (4/6/18-26/1/19) [GS]
42. Kipling and the Cross-Correspondences (6/6/18-18/1/19) [GS]
43. In the Le Fanu Museum (12-13/7-27/8/19) [H]
44. The Station (15/11/19-27/1/20) [H]
45. The Cat’s Veto (13/12/19-27/1/20) [H]
46. The Interrupted Journey (9/12/20-16/7/21) [H]
47. 77 Days (1-3/11/21) [H]
48. Skeleton tracks (18-19/11/21) [H]
49. Cartographies of the Afterlife: Suicide Note (16-29/1; 13-15/4/22-20/9/23) [H]
50. Cartographies of the Afterlife: The Haunted Bookshop (30/1-8/2/22-19/9/23) [H]
51. Ghosting (18-24/3/22; 22/4/22) [H]
52. Mythago Wood [19/5/22-16/8/23] [H]
53. Wellington (7/6/22-21/9/23) [H]
54. Cartographies of the Afterlife: The Treasure House (21-24/6/22) [H]
55. The Missing Pages (26/7-15/8/2023) [H]

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Stories In Periodicals & Online

1. “General Grant in Paeroa.” brief 56 (2018): 97-107.


2. “Brothers.” brief 54 (2016): 99-104.


3. “Leaves from a Diary of the End of the World.” brief 53 (2015): 80-97.


4. “Is it Infrarreal or is it Memorex? Robert Bolaño’s Savage Detectives and the Eternal Avant-garde.” Landfall 230 (November 2015): 89-96.


5. “Ars Combinatoria” [Extract from Trouble in Mind]. Titus Books: A Platform for New Writing. [visited 4/8/11].


6. “Featherston.” Starch: A New Zealand Literary Journal 1 (2011): 71-74.


7. “The Pedestrian Crossing.” Bravado 16 (2009): 7-8.


8. “Extract from EMO.” brief #36 (2008) – The NZ Music Issue: 31-40.


9. “The Cat.” Music by Padmanabha Fischlinger. [Brief #36 CD: track 7].


10. “The Cat.” With backing music by Padmanabha Fischlinger. Titus Books: A Platform for New Writing. [visited 31/3/08].


11. “from Ovid in Otherworld.” Magazine 5 - Utu, Justice (2007): 83-86.


12. “Notes found inside a text of Bisclavret.” Percutio 2 (2007): 60-69.


13. “The Purloined Letter.” brief #35 – A Brief World Order (2007): 14-33.


14. “Bird Girl.” evasion online (12/03-1/04)


15. “The Yellow Room.” brief 27 (2003): 94-96.


16. “The Great New Zealand Vortex.” evasion online 2 (4) & 2 (5) (4/03-6/03)


17. “A Strange Day at the Language School.” Landfall 203 (2002): 119-25.


18. “Tahiti in 1978.” brief 23 (2002): 36-50.


19. “Tango Summer.” evasion 2 (2000): 20-27.


20. “The Great Hunger.” A Brief Description of the Whole World 14 (1999): 34-37.


21. “Grafton Amours.” Pander 9 (1999): 18-19.


22. “Adiós DOS.” Pander 6/7 (1999): 18-20.


23. “Robinsonade.” Pander 2 (1997): 14-15.

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pander 2 (1998)

Chapbooks

[Pania Press (2008)]

Contents:

1. “We” Society Poetry Anthology. Edited with a Preface by Jack Ross. ISBN 978-0-473-32197-0. “Stage2Page” Publishing Series #4. Auckland: Printable Reality, 2015. vi + 66 pp.







2. Fallen Empire: Museum of True History in Collaboration with Karl Chitham and Jack Ross. Dunedin: Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 2012.





3. Scenes from The Puppet Oresteia. Artwork by William T. Ayton. ISBN 978-0-473-18881-8. Rhinebeck, NY: Narcissus Press / Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2011. 24 ink drawings. 44 pp.





4. Silhouette. Artwork by Bronwyn Lloyd. Auckland: Pania Press, 2009. 7 pp.





5. The Argo & The Wahine. Story by Bronwyn Lloyd / Poems by Jack Ross. Auckland: Pania Press, 2009. 24 pp.





6. The Return of the Vanishing New Zealander. ISBN 978-0-9864507-6-1. Dunedin: Kilmog Press, 2009. 20 pp.





7. Je donne à mon espoir. Auckland: Pania Press, 2009. 8 pp. [limited edition of 21 copies].





8. Minotaur. Auckland: Pania Press, 2009. 4 pp. [limited edition of 21 copies].





9. Orange Roughy: Poems & Stories for Tazey. Edited by Bronwyn Lloyd & Jack Ross. ISBN 978-0-473-13179-1. Auckland: Pania Press, 2008. ii + 74 pp.





10. Papyri: Love Poems & Fragments from Sappho . ISBN 978-0-473-12397-0. Auckland Soapbox Press, 2007. 24 pp. [signed edition of 70 copies].





11. Love in Wartime. Wellington Pania Press, 2006. 20 pp. [signed edition of 30 copies].





12. A Bus Called Mr Nice Guy. Poems by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-473-10526-8. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2005. [ii] + 50 pp. [signed edition of 50 copies].





13. The Britney Suite, by Paul Celan, Wendy Nu & Jack Ross. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2001. 24 pp. [20 numbered copies].





14. The Perfect Storm. Video by Gabriel White, text by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-473-07350-1 (Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2000) 8 pp. [12 mins].





15. A Town like Parataxis. Poems by Jack Ross, Photographs by Gabriel White. ISBN 0-473-07104-5. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2000. 22 pp. [100 copies].





16. Ezra Pound’s Fascist Cantos (72 & 73) together with Rimbaud’s “Poets at Seven Years Old.” Translated by Jack Ross. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 1997. [ii] + 42 pp. [30 copies].





17. Killing Time. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 1997. [iv] + 16 pp. [20 copies].





18. Apollinaire’s Aubade. Translated by Jack Ross. Illustration by Mark Haddon. Edinburgh: Drummond Press, 1987. 12 pp. [30 numbered copies].

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