Books by Ezra Pound

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past

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Fin al tormento es el diario personal que llevó la poeta Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) durante una parte del año 1958, cuando su amigo y mentor Ezra Pound fue liberado del manicomio de St. Elizabeth, y regresó a Italia. Alentada por varios conocidos comunes, y por las noticias que le llegaban desde Estados Unidos, H.D., hospitalizada en Suiza, sintió la necesidad de poner por escrito los recuerdos de su relación con Pound, desde el noviazgo adolescente que se remontaba a 1905, hasta la posterior amistad y colaboración poética. Los recuerdos íntimos contados en este libro, que sostienen la certeza de dos vidas poéticas irrevocablemente entremezcladas, tienen su complemento ideal en una serie de veinticinco poemas que forman el primero de los libros conocidos de Pound: El Libro de Hilda. El manuscrito de estos poemas, dedicado y encuadernado por el propio autor, fue entregado a la destinataria antes de partir a Europa, en 1908. Se consideró perdido durante el bombardeo de Londres en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y reapareció en los años setenta. Esta es la primera traducción al español de ambos textos. (Ernesto Hernández Busto)

The Natural Philosophy of Love is an exploration of the prodigious sexual mores of Nature’s creations. Translated with a postscript by Ezra Pound, Remy de Gourmont’s “essay on sexual instinct” surveys the entire animal kingdom, describing the hermaphroditism of oysters, the cannibalistic amours of spiders, and many more curious natural phenomena. Blending zoology, poetry, and philosophy, the author’s subversive erudition casts a dubious glance at anthropocentric morality, finding “there is no lewdness which has not its normal type in nature.”

An extensively annotated edition of Ezra Pound's Chinese translations in Cathay (1915) and Lustra (1916), complete with manuscript sources and the Chinese originals and Pound's article "Chinese Poetry. Filled out by essays by Haun Saussy, Christopher Bush, and Timothy Billings, this edition resituates Cathay as a project of poetry in circulation and a work of World Literature.

Ezra Pound has been called a "poetic visionary" and the "catalyst of the American modernist movement." All of his work collected runs well over 1,000 pages. Here is a new collection of the best of the best of the poetic work of the young Pound, filled with creative energy, verbal virtuosity, and clear-sighted vision. His continuing goal was to "make it new," and so he did. This volume includes some of Pound's most powerful and most memorable poems from Personae, Exultations, Ripostes, Cathay, Lustra, and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, along with several other Pound collections. It also includes some poems that have not been previously collected.

Ezra Pound's Posthumous Cantos collects unpublished pages of his great poem, drawn from manuscripts held in the archive at Yale's Beinecke Library and elsewhere. They are assembled by Pound's Italian translator, the critic and scholar Massimo Bacigalupo, into a companion book to the Cantos.

Ezra Pound and James Laughlin: Selected Letters is a modernist source book - essential reading for anyone interested in tracing the real development of twentieth-century literature.

If the invention of literary modernism is usually attributed to Joyce, Eliot and Pound, it was Pound's personality and position in the artistic world that enabled the experiment to transform itself into an international movement.