Cross-Cultural Ezra Pound

Walter Baumann was born in Switzerland and studied at the Universities of Zurich and Aberdeen. His academic teaching career in German Studies started at Toronto University and continued at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. He published on J. W. Goethe, H. Broch, and M. Frisch. John Gery is an American poet, critic, collaborative translator, and editor. He has published seven books of poetry, a critical work on the treatment of nuclear annihilation in American poetry, two co-edited volumes of literary criticism and two co-edited anthologies of contemporary poetry, as well as, a co-authored biography and guidebook on Ezra Pound's Venice. David McKnight is director of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Pennsylvania.

• PrefaceDavid McKnightIntroduction: Six Ways a Sunday: The Cross-Cultural Realm of Ezra PoundI. Pound’s Cross-Cultural Genesis1. Pound’s Modern (Metrical) Education Ira Nadel 2. The First Imagists William Pratt 3. Pound and/or Franklin: A Reading of Canto 31John Gery II. Pound’s Cross-Cultural Poetics4. Pound’s Vorticist Theory and H.D.’s “Oread”Yoshiko Kita 5. Fenollosa and Pound: The Authorship Question of The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry Lin Wei 6. Pound’s Composition of Canto 16: “j’entendis des voix”John Beall 7. The Genealogy of the China Cantos Kent Su III. Pound and Cross-Cultural Questions of Translation8. The Poetics of Queering Translation in Ezra Pound’s Homage to Sextus PropertiusChristian Bancroft 9. Rainer Maria Gerhardt and Ezra Pound Walter Baumann 10. “Cantos” or “Cantares”? Pound’s Reception in Two Romance Languages Viorica Patea IV. Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Pound and His Work11. Ezra Pound and Caresse Crosby: From Black Sun to Roccasinibalda Anne Conover 12. Pound, Bergson, and the Vortex of MemoryJonathan Pollock13. Ritual and Performance in The Pisan Cantos and H.D.’s Trilogy Giuliana Ferreccio 14. A Carthaginian Peace: Kenner, Watts & the Founding of Pound Studies Michael Coyle