The Pisan cantos / Ezra Pound.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.

Contributor:

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New Directions book

A New Directions book

Standardized Title:

Pisan cantos

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century.

American literature.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 118 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : music ; 23 cm.

Manufacture:

[Binghamton, N. Y. : Manufactured in the United States by The Vail-Ballou Press.

Other Title:

Cantos.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : [New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin], [1948.]

Notes:

Cantos 74-84, composed while Pound was in a prison camp near Pisa.

"Canto LXXV consists of seven lines followed by Janequin's motet 'Les oiseaux, ' reproduced (in an arrangement by Gerhart Münch for violin) in facsimile of manuscript (in the hand of Olga Rudge)." -- Cf. Gallup.

Bound in black cloth over boards; stamped in silver on spine; gray dust jacket printed and illustrated in deep blue-green.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has front and back lapels from dustjacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of W. C. Wiliams.

Cited in:

Gallup, A60a

Related Work:

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Cantos.

OCLC:

626169