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Voices & Visions-Ezra Pound |
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Leader of the avant-garde, promoter of other writers, and prisoner, poet Ezra Pound's complex nature is examined in this episode of the Voices & Visions series. On hand to explain Pound's life are his mistress, their daughter, critic Alfred Kazin, and publisher James Laughlin who insists the poet was "not a fascist, but a damn fool...." Although American born and educated, Pound left the U.S. for England early in his career, which was marked by political activism as well as poetry. This video uses a combination of actors reading from Pound's works and recordings of the author, including excerpts of the World War II broadcasts from Italy that caused him to be charged with treason and incarcerated in an American mental hospital for more than a decade. His life as an expatriate is detailed as well as his unhappy ménage à trois with his lover Olga Rudge and his wife and collaborator Dorothy Shakespear, and his tireless promotion of other writers including T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway. An American GI describes the prisoner Pound working away at The Cantos, which took much of his life to write, and his daughter describes his sad post-hospital life. --Kimberly Heinrichs
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