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Ezra Pound Reads
Author/Reader: Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound

Pound's poetry as well as his life were subjects of controversy. Here, he reads his own work, beautifully showcasing his innovative iedas and searing vision. Featured is his most ambitious poetic project of all: the "Cantos," which recieved the first Bollingen Award for achievement in American poetry in 1949. Also includes "The Gypsy" and "The Exile's Letter." » Read More

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Publish Date: 03/15/2001
ISBN: 9780694524303

Synopsis:

Ezra Pound's inspirational sway over twentieth century poetry remains unquestioned to this day. Ezra Pound Reads offers a rare opportunity to witness the vision of this awe-inspiring, intensely polemical artist.

The Cantos were Pound's most ambitious poetic project. He began writing this series of poems in 1913 and continued to work on them until his death. These complex and lyrical incantations explore the writer's disappointment in the imperfections of man. his hatred of war and commercialism, and his ongoing interest in economic concerns.

Pound's ideas and searing vision are beautifully showcased in this audio, portions of which were recorded at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C, where, Pound was as held after lie was accused of treason, but judged not to be of sound mind to stand trial.

Author Bio:

Ezra Pound was born in Idaho but raised in Philadelphia, where his father worked for the U.S. Mint. He studied at Hamilton College, majoring in Anglo-Saxon and Romance languages, and received an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He then taught briefly at a college in Indiana but was forced to resign in 1907 when he was caught entertaining an actress in his room. He went to Europe, writing and publishing his first book of poems and settling eventually in London, becoming a vital part of the Imagist and Vorticist movements and continuing to write. He was also instrumental in helping T. S. Eliot and James Joyce (whom he declared "by far the most significant writer of our decade") published in the magazines "Poetry" and "The Egoist". In 1914 he married Dorothy Shakespear, an artist. In Paris in the '20s, Pound became part of Gertrude Stein's circle and met Hemingway; he served as Eliot's editor in the writing of "The Waste Land" and, in 1922, began his lifelong relationship with Olga Rudge. By 1924, he was living in Italy, where he became influenced by fascism, which he believed would create a world in which the arts would flourish. He was arrested for treason in 1945 and declared insane; he spent the next 12 years at St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Insane in Washington, D.C. When he was released, in 1958, he said, "How did it go in the madhouse? Rather badly. But what other place could one live in America?") He returned to Italy, and died in Venice at the age of 87. Pound published over 70 books in his lifetime, and was not only a poet but a translator of Japanese plays and Chinese poetry. His 1934 prose work, "The ABC of Reading", is a seminal modernist text.

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