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The Cantos of Ezra Pound is one of the great landmarks in
twentieth-century poetry. This Fourth Collected edition of 1987
includes two previously uncollected cantos, and some passages from
other cantos, omitted from earlier printings, restored to the text.
The additional cantos, numbered LXXII and LXXIII, were written by
Ezra Pound in Italian, during the collapse of Italy at the end of
the war.. They belong in the sequence between the John Adams and
the Pisan cantos.
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Cathay (Hardcover)
Ezra Pound, Ernest Francisco Fenollosa, Po Li
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Cat Poems (Paperback)
Elizabeth Bishop, Stevie Smith, Ezra Pound, Charles Baudelaire, William Carlos Williams, …
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You Know How a Cat
will bring a mouse it has
caught and lay it at your
feet so each morning I
bring you a poem that
I've written when I woke
up in the night as my tribute
to your beauty &
a promise of my love.
-James Laughlin
Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors. Cats raise a mirror up to their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and hypnotise, frustrate and delight. To poets, in particular, these enigmatic creatures are the most delightful and beguiling of muses, as they purr, prowl, hunt, play, meow, and nap, often oblivious to their so-called masters. Cat Poems offers a litter of odes to our beloved felines by some of the greatest poets of all time.
Opposing the Money Lenders - The Struggle to Abolish
Interest Slavery is a collection of writings from some of
the most determined fighters against usury and the Central Banking
system during the 20th Century. Those included are Arthur Nelson
Field, John A. Lee, John Hargrave, Ezra Pound, Father Charles
Coughlin, and Gottfried Feder, who fought and inspired mass
movements that struggled to liberate their nations from the forces
of what one - Gottfried Feder - aptly called "Mammonism."
The subject of the supply of our money, and who controls it, is
the greatest social issue that confronts humanity today. It is the
"Hidden Hand" behind history. Without dealing with the problems of
banking and usury, without a people having control over its own
means of credit and exchange, there can be no genuine nationhood,
and no real freedom, whether personal or national.
Almost every individual, family, nation, indeed most of the world,
is today in thrall to the money lenders. Despite advances in
mechanisation and technology, people are working longer hours, and
are more enslaved to the economic treadmill than were their
ancestors in Medieval times. At the same time, despite mass
education, people today understand the economic and financial
system far less than their parents and grandparents. Opposing the
Money Lenders examines our parasitic financial system and the means
by which it might be replaced.
This selection provides an excellent introduction to Ezra Pound's
poetry for the general reader, and for the student of contemporary
literature. It takes the place of the pioneer edition edited by T.
S. Eliot which was published in 1928. A representative group of
early poems is included; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, Cathay and Homage
to Sextus Propertius are printed complete; and there is a selection
from the Cantos up to and including Drafts & Fragments (1969).
Delmore Schwartz said about The Cantos: "They are one of the
touchstones of modern poetry." William Carlos WIlliams said
"[Pound] discloses history by its odor, by the feel of it-in the
words; fuses it with the words, present and past, to MAKE his
Cantos. Make them." Since the 1969 revised edition, the Italian
Cantos LXXII and LXXIII (as well as a 1966 fragment concluding the
work) have been added. Now appearing for the first time is Pound's
recently found Eglish translation of Italian Canto LXXII.
Even before establishing New Directions, James Laughlin had
encountered and studied with one of the greatest poets of this
century: Ezra Pound. These selected letters capture the spirit of
their growing relationship from pupil-teacher to publisher-author.
In his idiosyncratic prose, Pound's correspondence summons up both
the man as he was actually known and the literary figure.
Literature, music, friends, and politics fill his pages. And even
when Laughlin's and Pound's politics totally diverged during World
War II, Pound's respect for Laughlin remained intact. Also of great
interest are the years spent by Pound at St. Elizabeths and his
observations while there. These letters give insight into the state
of Pound's mind and the supposition of his insanity. Ezra Pound and
James Laughlin: Selected Letters is a modernist source book -
essential reading for anyone interested in tracing the real
development of twentieth-century literature.
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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