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Informationen zum Autor Alec Marsh is Professor of English at Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of Ezra Pound (Reaktion Books 2011), and Money & Modernity: Pound, Williams and the Spirit of Jefferson (Alabama, 1998). Zusammenfassung The instalments of Ezra Pound's life-project, The Cantos , composed during his incarceration in Washington after the Second World War were to have served as a "Paradiso" for his epic. Beautiful and tormented, enigmatic and irascible by turns, they express the poet's struggle to reconcile his striving for justice with his extreme Right politics. In heavily coded language, Pound was writing activist political poetry. Through an in-depth reading of the "Washington Cantos" this book reveals the ways in which Pound integrated into his verse themes and ideas that remain central to American far-right ideology to this day: States' Rights, White-supremacy and racial segregation, the usurpation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court, and history as racial struggle.Pound's struggle was also personal. These poems also celebrate his passion for his muse and lover, Sheri Martinelli, as he tries to teach her his politics and, in the final poems, mount his legal defence against the unresolved treason charges hanging over his head.Reading the poetry alongside correspondence and unpublished archival writings, Ezra Pound’s Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light is an important new work on a poet who stands at the heart of 20th-century Modernism. Building on his previous book John Kasper and Ezra Pound: Saving the Republic (Bloomsbury, 2015), Alec Marsh explores the way the political ideas revealed in Pound’s correspondence manifested themselves in his later poetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Forward Chapter One: The Washington Cantos: Anagogy, Metapolitics and the Warren Court The Washington Cantos: Section: Rock-Drill de los Cantares and Thrones Metapolitics and Politics “Four Steps to the Bughouse” The Warren Court Chapter Two: Obstacles to Understanding the Washington Cantos Aesopian Language and Its ProblemsPound’s Reading and the Poverty of PhilologyTrobar ClusPound’s “Late Style” The “Cleaners Manifesto” Chapter Three: Two States’ Rights Fables: John Randolph of Roanoke and Canto 103John RandolphCanto 103 Chapter Four : The Aryanist Vortex: Pound’s Metapolitics and White SupremacyPound’s Taxonomy of Human Types“Freedom Now or Never” Chapter Five: Raising Cain: The Aryan Origins of Civilization “Alfalfa Bill” Murray’s Adam & Cain Waddell, Egypt and the Aryan Makers of CivilizationPound’s ‘Egyptian Problem’ Chapter Six: Sheri Martinelli and the Paradise of Venus Ezra Pound: “a great stud…” Trobar Clus Chapter Seven: Sheri Martinelli: Right Wing Muse Chapter Eight: Apollonius of Tyana Chapter Nine: Pound and Sovereignty: Canto 97, “nummolary theory” and the Sacred Ratios. “REAL Ideology” Chapter Ten: Pound’s Agrarian Bent: Physiocracy Against Degradation Chapter Eleven: The Coke Cantos as an Argument for the Defense The Connecticut Charter Pound and Catherine Drinker BowenFour Acres Chapter Twelve: Pound at Colonus: The Poet as OedipusAfterword Appendix A: A Primer of Poundian Economics Appendix B: “Homage to Grandpa” by Sheri Martinelli Bibliography Index...
