Watching the Worlds Go By by Omar S. Pound WATCHING THE WORLDS GO BY offers a generous cross-section of Omar Pound's original poetry as well as his translations from the Arabic and Persian. The veteran Pound reader will recognize some favorites but will also find new poems scattered among them. [Several] were completed during the proofing stages of this book. The selections in this volume range from longer narrative poems to shorter lyrics, affording pleasant surprises at every turn of the page, as yet another aspect of this insightful, impish humble poet reveals itself. About the author: Omar Shakespear Pound is a poet, scholar, translator from the Arabic and Persian, and retired teacher of English at Princeton University. In addition to his several volumes of poetry and translations, he has edited three volumes of his father's letters, the most recent with Oxford University Press. He is currently at work on a collection of letters written in India in the 19th century. He lives with his wife Elizabeth in Princeton, NJ. click here to learn more about the author ISBN 0-9678343-5-X Poetry / $19.95

Here's what others say about Omar S. Pound and his writing:

WATCHING THE WORLDS GO BY is the work of a man who has lived in many cultures and eras of history; his translations and renderings of Arabic poetry are exquisite, modern, light-fingered; his sense of the Medieval imagination is so precise and faithful to that vanished world that one is immediately and unforgettably transported back to it, even to the smells of the marketplace and the noise of the alleys. Omar Pound, the son of Dorothy Shakespear of Shakespeare & Company fame, and of Ezra Pound, the Modernist and greatest innovator of his century, carries his lineage lightly, but his mastery of the short lyric glitters like his father's best poems. The reader who comes upon "Moon-Catch in Snowlight" and "A Coin Given to a Friend" will find lyric as it is meant to be written, with control, humor, and a translucent purity. His longer poems are so effortlessly interesting, they read like brilliant conversations. Few books of this era can measure up to the wisdom and simplicity of this man's writing.
-Paul Christensen, author of WEST OF THE AMERICAN DREAM: AN ENCOUNTER WITH TEXAS

Skepticism, with certain temperaments, can turn the mind lyrical, or make habitual a certain lyric elusiveness. When the mind can no longer stand givens and incontrovertibles, it can begin to tell its lies musically. It is this impish play of song that I find central and most distinctive in Omar Pound's poetry. His voice, at its best, has a humor and warmth capable of great modulation, and his frequent appeal to the things of this world provides ballast for his singing.
-Robert E. Spoo, from the Introduction of THE DYING SORCERER