{"product_id":"ezra-pound-poems-translations-loa-144-isbn-9781931082419","title":"Ezra Pound: Poems \u0026 Translations (LOA #144)","description":"\u003cb\u003eHere in one volume is the biggest and best collection of Pound’s poetry (excepting his long poem \u003ci\u003eThe Cantos\u003c\/i\u003e) and translations ever assembled. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRanging from the text of the handmade first collection \u003ci\u003eHilda’s Book\u003c\/i\u003e (a gift to the poet H.D.) to his late translations of Horace, and containing dozens of items previously unavailable, \u003ci\u003ePoems and Translations\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the diversity and richness of a body of work marked by daring invention and resonant music. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn such early volumes as \u003ci\u003eRipostes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCathay\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLustra\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHugh Selwyn Mauberley\u003c\/i\u003e—as surely as in his later magisterial versions of \u003ci\u003eThe Confucian Odes\u003c\/i\u003e and the Sophoclean dramas \u003ci\u003eWomen of Trachis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eElektra\u003c\/i\u003e—Pound followed his own directive to “make it new,” opening fresh formal pathways while exploring the most ancient traditions. Before, during, and after the controversies and catastrophes of his public career (culminating in his long residence in a Washington mental hospital while under indictment for treason), Pound remained capable of rare technical brilliance and indelible lyricism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are the lush early lyrics, echoing Browning and the Troubadours; the chiseled free verse of such masterpieces as “The Return,” “Near Perigord,” and “Homage to Sextus Propertius”; the dazzling translations that led Eliot to call Pound “the inventor of Chinese poetry for our time.” The Chinese verse translations are supplemented by Pound’s versions of the Confucian prose texts—\u003ci\u003eThe Analects\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Digest\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Unwobbling Pivot\u003c\/i\u003e—which he saw as crucial to his literary aims. An extensive chronology offers guidance to Pound’s tumultuous life, and detailed notes clarify the many recondite allusions.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.“Richard Sieburth’s huge edition of Pound’s \u003ci\u003ePoems and Translations\u003c\/i\u003e for The Library of America devotes many pages to the young man ‘out of key with his time.’ … The first edition of Pound’s work with any claim to completeness…. to lovers of Pound’s work, \u003ci\u003ePoems and Translations\u003c\/i\u003e could not be more welcome.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAmerican poet and critic \u003cb\u003eEzra Pound \u003c\/b\u003e(1885-1972) was one of the pioneering figures of American modernism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Sieburth\u003c\/b\u003e, editor, is professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University and the author of \u003ci\u003eInstigations: Ezra Pound and Remy de Gourmont\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of Pound’s \u003ci\u003eA Walking Tour in Southern France\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305320665317,"sku":"NP9781931082419","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781931082419.jpg?v=1767726605","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/ezra-pound-poems-translations-loa-144-isbn-9781931082419","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}