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- 9780374284046
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374284040
ISBN-13
9780374284046
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237381492
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bughouse : the Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Modern / 20th Century, General, Literary, American / General, Criminology
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
15.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-007577
Reviews
" A wonderful portrait of Ezra Pound in all his moods--mad, bad, and blindingly sane." --Al Alvarez, author of The Savage God, "A sensitive investigation into the enigmatic, prodigious mind of poet Ezra Pound . . . [Daniel Swift] draws on memoirs . . . as well as interviews, a close reading of Pound's writings, and medical records to create a multidimensional portrait of a celebrated, controversial literary figure." -- Kirkus " The Bughouse is an extraordinary book of real, passionate research tha t keeps surprising and illuminating by turns. It has made my love of Pound far more difficult--as it should." --Edmund de Waal "'Pound,' he quipped of his name, 'an enclosure for stray animals.' Swift tells the stories of six poets (although there were many more) who were gathered by Uncle Ez into his pen at St. Elizabeths. Hospitalized Pound here emerges as the uncanny figure of the hospes , at once stranger, guest, and host, at once a welcoming organism and a dangerous, parasitical virus." --Richard Sieburth, author of Instigations: Ezra Pound and Remy de Gourmont "To understand an artist as compromised by circumstances--and by his own many contradictions--as Ezra Pound, we have to trace a complex path through a maze of half-truths, myth, and simplification. The Bughouse does so with supreme care, critical acumen, and humanity, shedding a whole new light not only on Pound the man, but also on the shape and character of The Cantos , one of the most seriously flawed and truly brilliant artworks of the twentieth century." --John Burnside "A wonderful portrait of Ezra Pound in all his moods--mad, bad, and blindingly sane." --A. Alvarez, author of The Savage God, "This story of Pound's politics and his prejudices takes on fresh significance...Swift is an alert and eloquent guide...I guarantee that The Bughouse will vex you into thinking more deeply about the relation between an artist's life and work, and perhaps even about the old-fashioned question of moral responsibility." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "[ The Bughouse ] abounds in striking details." -- The New Yorker "Engrossing . . . immensely fascinating." -- Diego Baez, Booklist "A sensitive investigation into the enigmatic, prodigious mind of poet Ezra Pound . . . [Daniel Swift] draws on memoirs . . . as well as interviews, a close reading of Pound's writings, and medical records to create a multidimensional portrait of a celebrated, controversial literary figure." -- Kirkus Reviews " The Bughouse is an extraordinary book of real, passionate research that keeps surprising and illuminating by turns. It has made my love of Pound far more difficult--as it should." --Edmund de Waal "'Pound,' he quipped of his name, 'an enclosure for stray animals.' Swift tells the stories of six poets (although there were many more) who were gathered by Uncle Ez into his pen at St. Elizabeths. Hospitalized Pound here emerges as the uncanny figure of the hospes , at once stranger, guest, and host, at once a welcoming organism and a dangerous, parasitical virus." --Richard Sieburth, author of Instigations: Ezra Pound and Remy de Gourmont "To understand an artist as compromised by circumstances--and by his own many contradictions--as Ezra Pound, we have to trace a complex path through a maze of half-truths, myth, and simplification. The Bughouse does so with supreme care, critical acumen, and humanity, shedding a whole new light not only on Pound the man, but also on the shape and character of The Cantos , one of the most seriously flawed and truly brilliant artworks of the twentieth century." --John Burnside "A wonderful portrait of Ezra Pound in all his moods--mad, bad, and blindingly sane." --A. Alvarez, author of The Savage God, "Engrossing . . . immensely fascinating." -- Diego Baez, Booklist "A sensitive investigation into the enigmatic, prodigious mind of poet Ezra Pound . . . [Daniel Swift] draws on memoirs . . . as well as interviews, a close reading of Pound's writings, and medical records to create a multidimensional portrait of a celebrated, controversial literary figure." -- Kirkus " The Bughouse is an extraordinary book of real, passionate research tha t keeps surprising and illuminating by turns. It has made my love of Pound far more difficult--as it should." --Edmund de Waal "'Pound,' he quipped of his name, 'an enclosure for stray animals.' Swift tells the stories of six poets (although there were many more) who were gathered by Uncle Ez into his pen at St. Elizabeths. Hospitalized Pound here emerges as the uncanny figure of the hospes , at once stranger, guest, and host, at once a welcoming organism and a dangerous, parasitical virus." --Richard Sieburth, author of Instigations: Ezra Pound and Remy de Gourmont "To understand an artist as compromised by circumstances--and by his own many contradictions--as Ezra Pound, we have to trace a complex path through a maze of half-truths, myth, and simplification. The Bughouse does so with supreme care, critical acumen, and humanity, shedding a whole new light not only on Pound the man, but also on the shape and character of The Cantos , one of the most seriously flawed and truly brilliant artworks of the twentieth century." --John Burnside "A wonderful portrait of Ezra Pound in all his moods--mad, bad, and blindingly sane." --A. Alvarez, author of The Savage God, Praise for Bomber Country "Mr. Swift writes particularly well about why good poetry about air bombing is rare and valuable . . . It's a pleasure to walk through this verse with Mr. Swift. His tone is serious but open, scholarly but solicitous." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times, "Engrossing . . . immensely fascinating." -- Diego Baez, Booklist "A sensitive investigation into the enigmatic, prodigious mind of poet Ezra Pound . . . [Daniel Swift] draws on memoirs . . . as well as interviews, a close reading of Pound's writings, and medical records to create a multidimensional portrait of a celebrated, controversial literary figure." -- Kirkus Reviews " The Bughouse is an extraordinary book of real, passionate research that keeps surprising and illuminating by turns. It has made my love of Pound far more difficult--as it should." --Edmund de Waal "'Pound,' he quipped of his name, 'an enclosure for stray animals.' Swift tells the stories of six poets (although there were many more) who were gathered by Uncle Ez into his pen at St. Elizabeths. Hospitalized Pound here emerges as the uncanny figure of the hospes , at once stranger, guest, and host, at once a welcoming organism and a dangerous, parasitical virus." --Richard Sieburth, author of Instigations: Ezra Pound and Remy de Gourmont "To understand an artist as compromised by circumstances--and by his own many contradictions--as Ezra Pound, we have to trace a complex path through a maze of half-truths, myth, and simplification. The Bughouse does so with supreme care, critical acumen, and humanity, shedding a whole new light not only on Pound the man, but also on the shape and character of The Cantos , one of the most seriously flawed and truly brilliant artworks of the twentieth century." --John Burnside "A wonderful portrait of Ezra Pound in all his moods--mad, bad, and blindingly sane." --A. Alvarez, author of The Savage God, "This story of Pound's politics and his prejudices takes on fresh significance...Swift is an alert and eloquent guide...I guarantee that The Bughouse will vex you into thinking more deeply about the relation between an artist's life and work, and perhaps even about the old-fashioned question of moral responsibility." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "Engrossing . . . immensely fascinating." -- Diego Baez, Booklist "A sensitive investigation into the enigmatic, prodigious mind of poet Ezra Pound . . . [Daniel Swift] draws on memoirs . . . as well as interviews, a close reading of Pound's writings, and medical records to create a multidimensional portrait of a celebrated, controversial literary figure." -- Kirkus Reviews " The Bughouse is an extraordinary book of real, passionate research that keeps surprising and illuminating by turns. It has made my love of Pound far more difficult--as it should." --Edmund de Waal "'Pound,' he quipped of his name, 'an enclosure for stray animals.' Swift tells the stories of six poets (although there were many more) who were gathered by Uncle Ez into his pen at St. Elizabeths. Hospitalized Pound here emerges as the uncanny figure of the hospes , at once stranger, guest, and host, at once a welcoming organism and a dangerous, parasitical virus." --Richard Sieburth, author of Instigations: Ezra Pound and Remy de Gourmont "To understand an artist as compromised by circumstances--and by his own many contradictions--as Ezra Pound, we have to trace a complex path through a maze of half-truths, myth, and simplification. The Bughouse does so with supreme care, critical acumen, and humanity, shedding a whole new light not only on Pound the man, but also on the shape and character of The Cantos , one of the most seriously flawed and truly brilliant artworks of the twentieth century." --John Burnside "A wonderful portrait of Ezra Pound in all his moods--mad, bad, and blindingly sane." --A. Alvarez, author of The Savage God
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
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Dewey Decimal
811.52
Synopsis
In 1945, the American poet Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War. Before the trial could take place, however, he was pronounced insane. Escaping a possible death sentence, he was sent to St. Elizabeths Hospital near Washington, D.C., where he was held for more than a decade. At the hospital, Pound was at his most infamous, and most contradictory. He was a genius and a traitor, a great poet and a madman. He was also an irresistible figure and, in his cell on Chestnut Ward and on the elegant hospital grounds, he was visited by the major poets and writers of his time. T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Charles Olson, and Frederick Seidel all went to sit with him. They listened to him speak and wrote of what they had seen. This was perhaps the world's most unorthodox literary salon: convened by a fascist, held in a lunatic asylum, with chocolate brownies and mayonnaise sandwiches served for tea. Pound continues to divide all who read and think of him. At the hospital, the doctors who studied him and the poets who learned from him each had a different understanding of this wild and most difficult man. Tracing Pound through the eyes of his visitors, Daniel Swift's The Bughouse tells a story of politics, madness, and modern art in the twentieth century.
LC Classification Number
PS3531.O82Z853 2017
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