false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171430419m/98943.jpg 98943 2 At last, a definitive, paperback edition of Ezra Pound's finest work. <P>Ezra Pound's <I>The Pisan Cantos</I> 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, <I>The Cantos</I>, themselves conceived as a <I>Divine Comedy</I> for our time. <P><I>The Pisan Cantos</I> 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 <I>The Pisan Cantos</I> 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. 1252611 1973 The Pisan Cantos total:88|5:45|4:24|3:13|2:4|1:2| 88 370 112 5 5 1 false false Mon Jan 26 05:20:52 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 05:22:51 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 07:19:35 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 07 15:27:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Jun 06 13:10:28 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 07:33:16 -0700 2009
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