Ezra Pound, Italy, and the Cantos

Ezra Pound spent most of his life in Italy and wrote about it incessantly in his poetry. Only by following his footsteps, acquaintances and composition processes can we make sense of and enjoy his forbidding Cantos. This study provides for the first time an account of Pound's Italian wanderings and of what they became in his work. After this study we will be able to read Pound as a guide to the places, people and books he loved, and we will share his the poet traveler's joys and discoveries.

About the author

Massimo Bacigalupo is emeritus professor of American literature at the University of Genoa, Italy, author of The Forméd Trace: The Later Poetry of Ezra Pound (Columbia University Press, 1980) and more recently the editor of Pound's Posthumous Cantos (Carcanet, 2016). His articles and reviews have appeared in the Paris Review, Modern Language Review, Yale Review, Notes & Queries, The Wallace Stevens Journal, etc. He has edited and translated works by Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Dickinson, Melville, Eliot, Stevens, Faulkner, and Heaney. Bacigalupo grew up in Rapallo, in a family of doctors that knew Pound and his relatives as patients and friends. In 1985 he curated a centenary Pound exhibition in Rapallo. He has edited new editions and translations of the poetry, and is widely acknowledged as one of Pound's foremost interpreters.

Product details

• Authors: Massimo Bacigalupo
• Publisher: Clemson University Digital Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781949979008
• ISBN: 978-1-949979-00-8
• No. of pages: 366
• Dimensions: 235 mm x 159 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 708 g
• Series: Clemson University Press; The Ezra Pound Center for Literature Book Series; Clemson University Press: The Ezra Pound Center for Literature Book Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies