Sixteen words for water
Subtitle: a play in two acts
By: Billy Marshall-Stoneking.
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Published: 1991
Place of publication: North Ryde, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Drama.; Poets -- Drama.
Other titles: 16 words for water.
Description: Sixteen Words for Water takes up Pound's life in the final days of his "imprisonment", when the balance between life and death had reached its most critical point. The Ezra Pound of the present play must choose between sanity and the possibility of the electric chair, or insanity and the surety of safety at the expense of freedom. In the midst of this, he finds himself invaded by strange thoughts - memories of the ancient Aboriginal myth of the Wandjina... the creative spirits of the Dreamtime who fashioned the world out of words and who, in the act of naming, threatened the world with chaos. 

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