Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano
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William Butler Yeats, his friend and fellow poet, called Pound (1885-1972) a "solitary volcano." Drawing on unpublished letters, published personal accounts, psychiatric reports, FBI files, and interviews, a Greenwich Village writer explores the turmoil that informed Pound's influential Imagist poems (e.g. The Cantos), including his arrest for treason in 1945. Tytell includes photos. A new introduction might have shed light on the timing of this reprint; the biography was originally published in 1987 by Anchor Press, New York. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, ORLibrary Book Watch...Provid[es] a balanced analysis of his mind and achievements in light of his mental state.
