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Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and...
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		Poems about City Life
		And the City Stood in its Brightness by Czeslaw Milosz

		Atlantic City Sunday Morning by Gregory Pardlo

		Block City by Robert Louis Stevenson

		California Plush by Frank Bidart

		He Dreams of Falling by Ruth Ellen Kocher

		In Paris by Carl Dennis

		The Chicago Poem by Jerome Rothenberg

		The City Limits by A. R. Ammons

		The City's Love by Claude McKay

		This City by Liam Rector

		With My Back to City Hall, On Yom Kippur by Jordan Davis


		Related Prose
		A Brief Guide to Imagism

		On "In a Station of the Metro" by Mark Doty

		Poetic Form: Haiku


		Other Haiku
		5 & 7 & 5 by Anselm Hollo

		The light of a candle by Yosa Buson

In a Station of the Metro
by Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
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From Personae by Ezra Pound, copyright © 1926 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. No part of this poem may be reproduced in any form without the written consent of the publisher.