EZRA POUND IN ITALY: FROM THE PISAN CANTOS
Edited by Gianfranco Ivancich; Photographs by Vittorugo Contino Rizzoli; 136 pages; $27.50
This book arrives like a packet of snapshots long lost in the mail. In 1968, some four years before his death, Poet Ezra Pound agreed to accompany an Italian photographer on a tour of the locales that had inspired him during the writing of the Pisan Cantos 23 years earlier. The freedom to roam was ironic, for when Pound had composed these poems he had not been free to travel anywhere. He was incarcerated in the U.S. Army Disciplinary Training Center in...
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