A Draft of XXX Cantos (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

Pound, Ezra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811211282 ISBN 13: 9780811211284

Publisher: New Directions, 1990

Synopsis

The Cantos have been called Ezra Pound's intellectual diary, composed over the course of sixty years. Long out of print as a separate volume―it was originally published in 1933―this epic of nine groupings of poems is available from New Directions.

An epic of great vision and complexity, Pound's Cantos addresses the profound human issues in history and in our time. Each of the nine groupings of poems can be seen as a fresh wave that swells out from and falls back upon the earlier cantos, extending them structurally, adding new layers of meaning. "A Draft of XXX Cantos" (1930), which introduces the work, thus anticipates the full Cantos' essential themes and provides the surest entry into Pound's encyclopedic masterpiece.

About this title

About the Author:

New Directions has been the primary publisher of Ezra Pound in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1936. That year Pound was fifty-one. In Laughlin’s first letter to Pound, he wrote: “Expect, please, no fireworks. I am bourgeois-born (Pittsburgh); have never missed a meal. . . . But full of ‘noble caring’ for something as inconceivable as the future of decent letters in the US.” Little did Pound know that into the twenty-first century the fireworks would keep exploding as readers continue to find his books relevant and meaningful.

Review:

Canto 1
Canto 10
Canto 11
Canto 12
Canto 13
Canto 14
Canto 15
Canto 16
Canto 17
Canto 18
Canto 19
Canto 2
Canto 20
Canto 21
Canto 22
Canto 23
Canto 24
Canto 25
Canto 26
Canto 27
Canto 28
Canto 29
Canto 3
Canto 30
Canto 4
Canto 5
Canto 6
Canto 7
Canto 8
Canto 9
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0811211282
• ISBN 13: 9780811211284
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160