Pound in Purgatory, available now in paperback, overturns all
previous explanations of Ezra Pound's anti-Semitism by uncovering
its roots in economic and conspiracy theory. Leon Surette
demonstrates that, contrary to popular opinion, Pound was not a
lifelong anti-Semitie and consistently ignored or resisted
anti-Semitic comments from his correspondents until after 1931.
From 1931 to 1945 Pound's poetry took a back seat to his activities
as an economic reformer and propagandist for the corporate state.
Pound believed he had a simple and practical solution for the
economic woes of the world brought on by the Great Depression, and
he became increasingly preoccupied with capturing political power
for the economic reform he envisioned. As the world spiraled toward
war, Pound's program of economic reform foundered, and he gradually
succumbed to a paranoid belief in a Jewish conspiracy. Through an
incisive analysis of Pound's correspondence and writings, much of
it previously unexamined, Surette shows how this belief fostered
the virulent anti-Semitism that pervades Pound's work--both poetry
and prose--from this time forward.
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