Cathay by Ezra Pound

Cathay by Ezra Pound

The centennial edition of Ezra Pound's early poetic masterpiecein a handsome facsimile edition.

""Pound, transcreating Chinese poetry in English, seems to have anticipated that making it new in our endless, inescapable present would increasingly mean returning to the old"" -- Pankaj Mishra - The New York Times Book Review
""With the vers libre of Cathay, T. S. Eliot famously observed, Pound had become "the inventor of Chinese poetry for our time." " -- Richard Sieburth

New Directions has been the primary publisher of Ezra Pound in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1936. That year Pound was fifty-one. In Laughlin’s first letter to Pound, he wrote: “Expect, please, no fireworks. I am bourgeois-born (Pittsburgh); have never missed a meal. . . . But full of ‘noble caring’ for something as inconceivable as the future of decent letters in the US.” Little did Pound know that into the twenty-first century the fireworks would keep exploding as readers continue to find his books relevant and meaningful. Zhaoming Qian is Chair Professor of Modernist Studies at Hangzhou Normal University. His most recent book is Modernism and the Orient (University of New Orleans Press, 2013).

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ISBN 13	9780811223522
ISBN 10	0811223523
Title	Cathay
Author	Ezra Pound
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Year published	2016-01-22
Number of pages	144
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