works stunning the dark and time again to photo­ pillboxed valleys, fireworks graph Big Bill Broonzy, of fear and death, Canadian Brownie McGhee and the aviators splattered against a great Sonny Terry, the hill, Germans in the forest Seegers-all of them, every with half their heads ripped last blessed one of them; the out by M-1 bullets; a reduc­ deeply missed Indian cow­ tion in wanting to feel, a boy poet, Peter La Farge, weariness the foot soldier and on and on, surely over a knows of walking all day, hundred Folkways covers: fighting to take a town and and all for a few bowls of then standing guard all rice, but oh the training night, full of Moselle wine Moe gave, the flaws he and fright; peeing in the pounced on, the flecks of Rhine River while crossing artiness he demolished in -a boy's gesture of con­ me, the constant strengthen­ tempt for a Nazi-stained ing of my natural bent. Hands of world; liberating a factory I saw whatever man or Big Joe Williams full of Jewish-Hungarian woman touches, makes or girls overcome with emotion mars is important; whatever that American soldiers had he does awake or asleep arrived (the Galahads of must be documented. To their time) to give them love this day the most exquisite and all kinds of German natural panorama can hard­ marks from a bank broken ly move my eye to a lens. into just nights before. But every .face, I mean every Oh, those were other face, has drama for me. times! No shame to be a How a person reacts to a soldier then. Until Hiro­ camera is crucial and should shima and Nagasaki. be photographed. The return to the States, I found communication two or three universities between photographer and where I skirted the deter­ the photographed is emo­ mined -courses of study to tional and rarely verbal, al­ sure we took blasting the To have, with decency, knocked plunge into Theodore though I often ask a probing granite surface of the editor., That a Blunt should open Dreiser, the extraordinary question to elicit a moment Irwin Silber. To have gathered from the Proust, Ezra Pound, Sean of thought in a person's eye. I discovered a young and air a live tradition O'Casey and Shakespeare What an individual selects to beautiful woman, Ruth, or from a fine old eye the and Shaw and a hundred surround himself with or some years ago and on the unconquered flame others. Those were the days, hangs on his walls is reveal­ first night of our ·meeting, I This is not vanity. a book a night and the hell ing: the dichotomies can be tried reading to her from Here error is all in the not with my eyes or exams-all devastating and/or enlight­ Virginia WoolfsA Room Of done but Proust. Couldn't rush ening. One's Own. Laughing, she all in the diffidence that faltered. Proust. Moe then turned me on threw me out, for she had a *The CANTOS OF EZRA I flushe~the GI Bill for to Sing Out! Magazine room of her own and didn't POUND, Ezra Pound, A NEW every day and degree I which couldn't afford a want to share it with a nut. DIRECTIONS BOOK, 1948. could, but fell shy of money bowl of rice, but it was Long after I loved her, she and found myself broke in worth it to meet and secure came to love me and we New York, so on to the the friendship of the fine have continued to confirm David Gahr has been photo­ graphing since 1959. His works world of time clocks. singer, Ethel Raim, the the alliance with Carla, a are in the collections of the Moses Asch found me ·beautifully talented South­ poetic 7, and Seth, a great Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art working 12 hours a day at erner, Jean Hammons, the 11. in New York, and he is con­ cool cheroot-smoking intel­ Ezra Pound, in his elo­ sidered without peer in photo­ Sam Goody's record store graphing the contemporary photographing everyone and lectual, Paul Nelson and the quent Canto LXXXI, I music scene. He recently re­ ceived the newspaper guild's everything around, blend.ing finest writer and thinker in think said it all: Page One award for the best into the streets in all kinds all of Chelsea, Julius Lester. magazine photography of the "What thou lovest well remains year for his Time Magazine of weather-whenever Sam, Not to forget Israel Young the rest is dross series on Powder Ridge. His yes, he exists-let me es­ who contains within him What thou lov'st well shall not newest book, in collaboration with Julius Lester, and dealing cape. Asch, that splendid, the courage of Don Quixote be reft from thee with music and peopl«: will be cantankerous guru of our and the peasant sagacity of What thou lov'st well is thy true published by Dial Press in the spring of 1972. time, spun me loose time Sancho Panza. What plea- heritage