On Wednesdays the Finnegans Wake Club at my high school meets. On Wednesdays I post to this blog, so I read a little Zukofsky. On Wednesdays I reach the end of my Weight Watchers week, so I allow myself a Finn Feast, using up my unused bonus points and activity points. On Wednesdays my wife teaches a class. I drive her to class, and during the class I get some reading done. Tonight I hope to study a little Latin and music theory, start rereading Joseph Kerman's The Beethoven Quartets (one of my very favorite books) and perhaps finish rereading Shelly Brivic's Joyce's Waking Women.
Just now I read a little of Zukofsky's A Test of Poetry. When I first read this wonderful book back in the 80's I noticed the deep similarity between Zukofsky's taste and Pound's. I noticed this again today with the passages from Donne's "The Ecstasy", Shakespeare, and Yeats. At first I didn't really feel in the mood to read this book, but I felt my body relaxing as I read the poetry out loud, and I felt my breath deepen. Thank you Louis Zukofsky.
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