Modpo Plus 2015

Brain nipping!  But loving my re-immersion in Modern and contemporary American Poetry.  So much to learn!   Was quite amused, listening to a group of Americans discuss this poem; without the emphasis on irony which a european group might have produced!

Cantico del Sole
BY EZRA POUND
The thought of what America would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation
                      Troubles my sleep,
The thought of what America,
The thought of what America,
The thought of what America would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation
                      Troubles my sleep.
Nunc dimittis, now lettest thou thy servant,
Now lettest thou thy servant
                      Depart in peace.
The thought of what America,
The thought of what America,
The thought of what America would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation . . .
                      Oh well!
                      It troubles my sleep.