{"product_id":"the-pisan-cantos-paperback","title":"The Pisan Cantos - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEzra Pound\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRichard Sieburth\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEzra Pound's \u003cem\u003eThe Pisan Cantos\u003c\/em\u003e was written in 1945, while the poet was being held in an American military detention center near Pisa, Italy, as a result of his pro-Fascist wartime broadcasts to America on Radio Rome. Imprisoned for some weeks in a wire cage open to the elements, Pound suffered a nervous collapse from the physical and emotional strain. Out of the agony of his own inferno came the eleven cantos that became the sixth book of his modernist epic, \u003cem\u003eThe Cantos\u003c\/em\u003e, themselves conceived as a \u003cem\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/em\u003e for our time. \u003cem\u003eThe Pisan Cantos\u003c\/em\u003e were published in 1948 by New Directions and in the following year were awarded the Bollingen Prize for poetry by the Library of Congress. The honor came amid violent controversy, for the dark cloud of treason still hung over Pound, incarcerated in St. Elizabeths Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Yet there is no doubt that \u003cem\u003eThe Pisan Cantos\u003c\/em\u003e displays some of his finest and most affecting writing, marking an elegaic turn to the personal while synthesizing the philosophical and economic political themes of his previous cantos. They are now being published for the first time as a separate paperback, in a fully annotated edition prepared by Richard Sieburth, who also contributes a thoroughgoing introduction, making Pound's master-work fully accessible to students and general readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 8.94 x 6.01 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 17, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757708214560,"sku":"9780811215589","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/eaa7f67254ccda198e078ae0401daf06.webp?v=1780109688","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-pisan-cantos-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}