Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light Marsh Alec
Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light Marsh Alec The instalments of Ezra Pound's life-project, The Cantos, composed during his incarceration in Washington after the Second World…
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Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light Marsh Alec
The instalments of Ezra Pound's life-project, The Cantos, composed during his incarceration in Washington after the Second World War were to have served as a "Paradiso" for his epic. In heavily coded language, Pound was writing activist political poetry. Beautiful and tormented, enigmatic and irascible by turns, they express the poet's struggle to reconcile his striving for justice with his extreme Right politics.
These poems also celebrate his passion for his muse and lover, Sheri Martinelli, Through an in-depth reading of the "Washington Cantos" this book reveals the ways in which Pound integrated into his verse themes and ideas that remain central to American far-right ideology to this day: States' Rights, White-supremacy and racial segregation, the usurpation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court, and history as racial struggle.Pound's struggle was also personal.