{"product_id":"ezra-pound-and-the-pisan-cantos","title":"EZRA POUND and the PISAN CANTOS","description":"\u003cp\u003eOld stock. A Critical study of Pounds writings while incarcerated in a US detention camp in Pisa in 1945 (see comments below).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"mwNg\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eAngered by the carnage of \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_I\" title=\"World War I\" id=\"mwNw\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eWorld War I\u003c\/a\u003e, Pound blamed the war on \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Finance_capitalism\" title=\"Finance capitalism\" id=\"mwOA\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003efinance capitalism\u003c\/a\u003e, which he called \"\u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Usury\" title=\"Usury\" id=\"mwOQ\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eusury\u003c\/a\u003e\".\u003csup class=\"mw-ref reference\" id=\"cite_ref-Preda2005bp90_4-0\" rel=\"dc:references\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ezra_Pound#cite_note-Preda2005bp90-4\" id=\"mwOg\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mw-reflink-text\" id=\"mwOw\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\" id=\"mwPA\"\u003e[\u003c\/span\u003e3\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\" id=\"mwPQ\"\u003e]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e He moved to \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingdom_of_Italy\" title=\"Kingdom of Italy\" id=\"mwPg\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eItaly\u003c\/a\u003e in 1924 and through the 1930s and 1940s promoted an economic theory known as \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_credit\" title=\"Social credit\" id=\"mwPw\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003esocial credit\u003c\/a\u003e, wrote for publications owned by the British fascist \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oswald_Mosley\" title=\"Oswald Mosley\" id=\"mwQA\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eOswald Mosley\u003c\/a\u003e, embraced \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benito_Mussolini\" title=\"Benito Mussolini\" id=\"mwQQ\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eBenito Mussolini\u003c\/a\u003e's \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italian_fascism\" title=\"Italian fascism\" id=\"mwQg\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003efascism\u003c\/a\u003e, and expressed support for \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adolf_Hitler\" title=\"Adolf Hitler\" id=\"mwQw\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eAdolf Hitler\u003c\/a\u003e. During \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" title=\"World War II\" id=\"mwRA\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eWorld War II\u003c\/a\u003e, Pound recorded hundreds of paid \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ezra_Pound's_radio_broadcasts,_1941%E2%80%931945\" title=\"Ezra Pound's radio broadcasts, 1941–1945\" id=\"mwRQ\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eradio propaganda broadcasts\u003c\/a\u003e for the \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fascist_Italy\" title=\"Fascist Italy\" id=\"mwRg\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003efascist Italian government\u003c\/a\u003e and its later incarnation as a German \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italian_Social_Republic\" title=\"Italian Social Republic\" id=\"mwRw\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003epuppet state\u003c\/a\u003e, in which he attacked the United States government, \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franklin_D._Roosevelt\" title=\"Franklin D. Roosevelt\" id=\"mwSA\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eFranklin D. Roosevelt\u003c\/a\u003e, Britain, \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_finance\" title=\"International finance\" id=\"mwSQ\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003einternational finance\u003c\/a\u003e, the arms industry, \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jews\" title=\"Jews\" id=\"mwSg\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eJews\u003c\/a\u003e, and others as abettors and prolongers of the war. He also praised both \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugenics\" title=\"Eugenics\" id=\"mwSw\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eeugenics\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holocaust_in_Italy\" title=\"Holocaust in Italy\" class=\"mw-redirect\" id=\"mwTA\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eHolocaust in Italy\u003c\/a\u003e, while urging American \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G.I.\" title=\"G.I.\" id=\"mwTQ\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eG.I.s\u003c\/a\u003e to throw down their rifles and surrender. In 1945, Pound was captured by the \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italian_resistance_movement\" title=\"Italian resistance movement\" id=\"mwTg\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eItalian Resistance\u003c\/a\u003e and handed over to the \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._Army\" title=\"U.S. Army\" class=\"mw-redirect\" id=\"mwTw\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eU.S. Army\u003c\/a\u003e's \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Counterintelligence_Corps\" title=\"Counterintelligence Corps\" id=\"mwUA\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eCounterintelligence Corps\u003c\/a\u003e, who held him pending extradition and prosecution based on an indictment for \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Treason_in_the_United_States\" title=\"Treason in the United States\" class=\"mw-redirect\" id=\"mwUQ\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003etreason\u003c\/a\u003e. He spent months in a U.S. military detention camp near \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pisa\" title=\"Pisa\" id=\"mwUg\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003ePisa\u003c\/a\u003e, including three weeks in an outdoor steel cage. Ruled \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Non_compos_mentis\" title=\"Non compos mentis\" id=\"mwUw\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003ementally unfit\u003c\/a\u003e to stand trial, Pound was incarcerated for over 12 years at \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._Elizabeths_Hospital\" title=\"St. Elizabeths Hospital\" id=\"mwVA\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eSt.\u003cspan id=\"mwVQ\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eElizabeths Hospital\u003c\/a\u003e in \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_D.C.\" title=\"Washington, D.C.\" id=\"mwVg\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eWashington, D.C.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"mwVw\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eWhile in U.S. military custody in Italy, Pound continued work on \u003ci id=\"mwWA\"\u003eThe Cantos.\u003c\/i\u003e This new work was published by \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Directions_Publishing\" title=\"New Directions Publishing\" id=\"mwWQ\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eNew Directions\u003c\/a\u003e in 1948 as \u003ci id=\"mwWg\"\u003e\u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Pisan_Cantos\" title=\"The Pisan Cantos\" class=\"mw-redirect\" id=\"mwWw\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eThe Pisan Cantos\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, for which Pound was awarded the \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bollingen_Prize\" title=\"Bollingen Prize\" id=\"mwXA\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eBollingen Prize for Poetry\u003c\/a\u003e in 1949 by the American \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Library_of_Congress\" title=\"Library of Congress\" id=\"mwXQ\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eLibrary of Congress\u003c\/a\u003e, leading to enormous controversy. After a campaign by his fellow writers, he was released from St.\u003cspan id=\"mwXg\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eElizabeths in 1958 and returned to Italy, where he posed for the press giving the \u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fascist_salute\" title=\"Fascist salute\" class=\"mw-redirect\" id=\"mwXw\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eFascist salute\u003c\/a\u003e and called the United States \"an insane asylum\". Pound remained in Italy until his death in 1972. His economic and political views have ensured that his life and literary legacy remain highly controversial.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Omni Christian Book Club","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53893095817579,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0961\/0199\/0763\/files\/Book-EzPisan1.jpg?v=1790033349","url":"https:\/\/omnicbc.com\/products\/ezra-pound-and-the-pisan-cantos","provider":"Omni Christian Book Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}