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The Pisan cantos / Ezra Pound.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 W6762 Zz948p
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
- 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
- OCLC:
- 626169
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