AO Scott and Aliza Aufrichtig in The New York Times:
Let’s say you’re riding public transportation — maybe on your daily commute to work, or an excursion in an unfamiliar city — and something catches your eye, something about the urban horde surging around you that you hadn’t noticed before. The impression sticks in your head, and eventually you write it down. That’s more or less what happened to the poet Ezra Pound one day in 1911. His record of what he saw, first published in Poetry Magazine in 1913, is one of the shortest great poems in the English language.
In a Station of the Metro
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