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Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light (Paperback)
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Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light (Paperback)
Series: Historicizing Modernism
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The instalments of Ezra Pound's life-project, The Cantos, composed
during his incarceration in Washington after the Second World War
were to have served as a "Paradiso" for his epic. Beautiful and
tormented, enigmatic and irascible by turns, they express the
poet's struggle to reconcile his striving for justice with his
extreme Right politics. In heavily coded language, Pound was
writing activist political poetry. Through an in-depth reading of
the "Washington Cantos" this book reveals the ways in which Pound
integrated into his verse themes and ideas that remain central to
American far-right ideology to this day: States' Rights,
White-supremacy and racial segregation, the usurpation of the
Constitution by the Supreme Court, and history as racial struggle.
Pound's struggle was also personal. These poems also celebrate his
passion for his muse and lover, Sheri Martinelli, as he tries to
teach her his politics and, in the final poems, mount his legal
defence against the unresolved treason charges hanging over his
head. Reading the poetry alongside correspondence and unpublished
archival writings, Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle
for Light is an important new work on a poet who stands at the
heart of 20th-century Modernism. Building on his previous book John
Kasper and Ezra Pound: Saving the Republic (Bloomsbury, 2015), Alec
Marsh explores the way the political ideas revealed in Pound's
correspondence manifested themselves in his later poetry.
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