Two American Poets talk UFOs

E. E. Cummings and Ezra Pound discussing UFOs in their letters in 1947. Picture related. Sauce and discussion following.

In response to Cummings asking what Pound thinks “of the ‘flying disks’ seen—& strenuously denied per Science—by groups & individuals (including experienced air-pilots) all over USA?” Pound replies:

“ ‘dying flisks!’ la jante!! merely another device to keep the peeple from reading Sophokles or anything decent.”

Pound/Cummings: The Correspondences of Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings

Page 220, search for “dying flisks”

https://books.google.com/books?id=SoNfrW9R1LkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Ezra+Pound+EE+Cummings&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo06Siv7_fAhWILnwKHSUmDI8Q6AEIJTAA#v=onepage&q=Ezra%20Pound%20EE%20Cummings&f=false

[and just for fun, for those who like literature, I get a kick out of Cummings writing “normally” and Pound writing all lower case (which is something Cummings is known for in his poetry). Likely a nod between the poets, but Pound was as peculiar as anything, so who knows]

This probably isn’t of use for research, but I thought some of y’all my appreciate it anyways, particularly if you like literature, most particularly if you know the poets E. E. Cummings and Ezra Pound. If you don’t, they were pretty heavy hitters for Modernist American poetry (roughly between WWI-WWII). I could do a whole other blip on Pound as a conspiracy theorist. He didn’t hide the fact. Or the Modernist interest in the occult, though the research isn’t hard for that, basic College library research. If there’s any interest, I’ll dig out my books and attending sauce.

(For example, Aleister Crowley wrote a review of some of Pound’s poetry (Crowley wrote poems alongside all that other stuff), though I never found anything on Pound acknowledging Crowley. But Pound certainly knew of him through W. B. Yeats (Irish heavy hitter, poety) who tussled with Crowley over one of the lodges (Golden Dawn?) Pound didn’t seem to go much into the esoteric stuff. He was more interested in banking and monetary history. Holy Crap would Anons/poetryfags like Pound’s The Cantos