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An edition of The Pisan cantos (1948)

The Pisan cantos

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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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English
Pages
159

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Cover of: The Pisan cantos
The Pisan cantos
2003, New Directions Books
in English
Cover of: De Pisaanse canto's
De Pisaanse canto's
1985, De Bezige bij
in Dutch
Cover of: The Pisan cantos
The Pisan cantos
1978, Faber
in English
Cover of: The Pisan cantos
The Pisan cantos
1973, Faber
in English
Cover of: Die Pisaner Gesänge
Die Pisaner Gesänge
1956, Verlag der Arche
in German
Cover of: The Pisan cantos
The Pisan cantos
1949, Faber and Faber
in English
Cover of: The Pisan cantos.
The Pisan cantos.
1949, Faber
in English
Cover of: The Pisan Cantos.
The Pisan Cantos.
1948, New Directions
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-159) and index.
"New Directions Paperbook 970"--T.p. verso.
No. 74-84 of the cantos.

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New York
Series
New Directions paperbook ;

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.52
Library of Congress
PS3531.O82 P5 2003, PS3531.O82P5 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
xliii, 159 p. ;
Number of pages
159

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3676409M
Internet Archive
pisancantos0000poun
ISBN 10
081121558X
LCCN
2003014114
OCLC/WorldCat
52554032
LibraryThing
67945
Goodreads
98943

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL7023190W

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