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Article: From the Bunting tapes.(excerpts from a book-length compilation of transcripts from tapes of conversations with author Basil Bunting)(Interview)(Transcript)
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- Chicago Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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This excerpt is from a book-length compilation of transcripts from tapes of conversations with Basil Bunting between 1970 and 1985. Part "table talk," part otherwise, it was approved by him for edited publication "eventually." This conversation took place on May 5, 1983, and begins with a discussion of Hakim Abol Ghasem Firdowsi Toosi (or Firdosi), the tenth-century Persian author of Shahname or The Epic of Kings.
Basil Bunting: You are misled in reading Fitzgerald, but not tragically. Saw the original!
Colin Simms: The Rubaiyat a poem.
BB: That's right: even, good long-poem.
CS: Did Pound read Persian?
BB: No, no, the limit ...