Selected Poems of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound has been called a poetic visionary and the catalyst of the American modernist movement. All of his work collected runs well over 1,000 pages. Here is a new collection of the best of the best of the poetic work of the young Pound, filled with creative energy, verbal virtuosity, and clear-sighted vision. His continuing goal was to make it new, and so he did. This volume includes some of Pound's most powerful and most memorable poems from Personae, Exultations, Ripostes, Cathay, Lustra, and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, along with several other Pound collections. It also includes some poems that have not been previously collected.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780811201629 |
| ISBN 10 | 0811201627 |
| Title | Selected Poems of Ezra Pound |
| Author | Ezra Pound |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 1957-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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