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"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself."
- Albert Einstein
(1879 - 1955)
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ZIN Product Number: 10690085
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 Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195107934
Release Date: Jan 6, 1974
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These fascinating letters capture the most traumatic experience of Ezra Pound's life, when he was incarcerated at the end of World War II and indicted for treason. Omar Pound and Robert Spoo have collected and edited the unpublished correspondence between the poet and his wife, combining it with restricted military orders and extensive references to FBI documents, previously unknown photographs, and an insightful introduction, to create the definitive work on this period of Pound's life. During his incarceration in a U.S. Army detention camp outside Pisa, Pound was allowed to write only to his wife, so these letters afford a unique look at a painful yet highly productive period, when Pound wrote his acclaimed Pisan Cantos and worked on his translations of Confucius. Here, too, are many moving passages testifying to Pound's partnership with Dorothy and her courageous efforts to help him; her experiences, no less than his, come to life in this volume. But perhaps the most moving are the harsh conditions Pound found himself in: at one point, in the Pisan camp, he was confined for three weeks in an open air cage, until the sixty-year-old poet suffered a breakdown and was moved to a tent in the medical compound. The editors connect the anxious lyricism of the Pisan Cantos to these dramatic experiences, as the poet alternated "between savage indignation and suave serenity." The book also covers Pound's return to the United States and his confinement in a federal mental institution there.
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Pound's public support for Hitler and Mussolini led to his capture in 1945 by US troops invading Italy and to his indictment for treason. He was incarcerated in an army camp in Pisa while awaiting repatriation and trial (an experience that provoked some of his greatest poetry) and allowed only to communicate with his wife. Their correspondence is here made available for the first time
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"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
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Ezra Pound Reads
Read by Ezra Pound
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|  | | | | Introduction | 1 | | LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS | | GENOA * Letters 1-6 and Documents 1-7 | 37 | | PISA * Letters 7-50 and Documents 8-12 | 79 | | EN ROUTE * Document 13 | 193 | | WASHINGTON, D.C. * Letters 51-155 and Documents 14-16 | 203 | | Appendixes | | 1 * Ezra Pound's Letter to Attorney General Biddle, and Ramon | | Arrizabalaga's Memoir | 367 | | 2 * Glossary of Chinese Ideograms | 377 | | Works, Libraries, and Collections Cited | 383 | | Index | 387 |
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