Ezra Pound was--and remains-- one of the most controversial poets of the Twentieth Century.Chiefly known for his alleged anti-Semitism and his support of Fascism during the Second World War,and widely dismissed even among serious critics for the supposed unreadability of his poetry, Pound contributed, nevertheless, to significant developments in the art of poetry at the beginning of the Twentieth Century through his break with the traditional metrical units still being used by poets at that time, and his exploration of Oriental verse forms .A poet who has been the object of vigorous argument and study by other writer and academics for almost a hundred years can't be summed up with any accuracy on something as limiting and given to the shorthand of modern social communication as a MySpace page. What is hoped is that over time, using the page as a forum for the presentation of his art and ideas, as well as opening it out for criticism of Pound, however severe, a picture will be built of the man, the context in which he wrote and the legacy of his achievements and (undoubted) ghastly mistakes, that will contribute in some small way to scholarship of the Modernist era (and beyond.) Blue Fred Press is primarily a Beat and post-Beat/ alternative poetry publisher. But I contend that none of that would have existed without Pound's innovations. We'll see if closer analysis bears that out, among the many other questions provoked by this towering irascible apopleptic lunatic seer.Pound Made New: A Slideshow set to a recording of Ezra Pound
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