Ezra Pound's The Pisan Cantos was written in 1945, while the poet
was being held in an American military detention center near Pisa,
Italy, as a result of his pro-Fascist wartime broadcasts to America
on Radio Rome. Imprisoned for some weeks in a wire cage open to the
elements, Pound suffered a nervous collapse from the physical and
emotional strain. Out of the agony of his own inferno came the
eleven cantos that became the sixth book of his modernist epic, The
Cantos, themselves conceived as a Divine Comedy for our time. The
Pisan Cantos were published in 1948 by New Directions and in the
following year were awarded the Bollingen Prize for poetry by the
Library of Congress. The honor came amid violent controversy, for
the dark cloud of treason still hung over Pound, incarcerated in
St. Elizabeths Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Yet there is no
doubt that The Pisan Cantos displays some of his finest and most
affecting writing, marking an elegaic turn to the personal while
synthesizing the philosophical and economic political themes of his
previous cantos. They are now being published for the first time as
a separate paperback, in a fully annotated edition prepared by
Richard Sieburth, who also contributes a thoroughgoing
introduction, making Pound's master-work fully accessible to
students and general readers.
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