Massimo Bacigalupo is emeritus professor of American literature at the University of Genoa, Italy, author of The Forméd Trace: The Later Poetry of Ezra Pound (Columbia University Press, 1980) and more recently the editor of Pound’s Posthumous Cantos (Carcanet, 2016). His articles and reviews have appeared in the Paris Review, Modern Language Review, Yale Review, Notes & Queries, The Wallace Stevens Journal, etc. He has edited and translated works by Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Dickinson, Melville, Eliot, Stevens, Faulkner, and Heaney. Bacigalupo grew up in Rapallo, in a family of doctors that knew Pound and his relatives as patients and friends. In 1985 he curated a centenary Pound exhibition in Rapallo. He has edited new editions and translations of the poetry, and is widely acknowledged as one of Pound’s foremost interpreters.

• Part One: Places1. How to Read The Cantos, or Rapallo Revisited2. City vs. Country: Venice, Fortuna, and John Law3. Rome: Greeting the Returning Gods and Sponsa Christi4. The Mediterranean: Pound, Yeats, Stevens and the “Godly Sea”Part Two: Meetings5. “And Some Climbing” -- Dante6. Poetry, History and Myth: Montale 7 “My Best Translator”: Carlo Izzo8. James Laughlin and “‘Ma’ Riess of Rapallo” Part Three: Readings9. The Law and How To Break It: Canto 2210. China in Different Voices11. Repeating the Past: Canto 4712. Poet as Anthropologist: “European Paideuma”13. Moscardino and Enrico Pea (“pronounced peh-ah”)14. The Italian Cantos 72 and 7315. The Pisan Cantos in Progress16. The Scandal of the CantosPart Four: Endings17. America and Italy in the Posthumous Cantos18. “I wish he would explain his explanation”: Pound and Stevens as self-explicators19. E.P., H.D., and the Making of End to Torment20. Sant’Ambrogio in the Half-LightAfterwordChronologyWorks Cited

'[Ezra Pound, Italy and The Cantos] is the most intimate and comprehensive look at Pound's creative process and the degree to which it is linked to his favoured places, art and history in Italy.'Gary Geddes, Pacific Rim Review of Books

Massimo Bacigalupo is emeritus professor of American literature at the University of Genoa, Italy, author of The Forméd Trace: The Later Poetry of Ezra Pound (Columbia University Press, 1980) and more recently the editor of Pound’s Posthumous Cantos (Carcanet, 2016). His articles and reviews have appeared in the Paris Review, Modern Language Review, Yale Review, Notes & Queries, The Wallace Stevens Journal, etc. He has edited and translated works by Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Dickinson, Melville, Eliot, Stevens, Faulkner, and Heaney. Bacigalupo grew up in Rapallo, in a family of doctors that knew Pound and his relatives as patients and friends. In 1985 he curated a centenary Pound exhibition in Rapallo. He has edited new editions and translations of the poetry, and is widely acknowledged as one of Pound’s foremost interpreters.

• Part One: Places1. How to Read The Cantos, or Rapallo Revisited2. City vs. Country: Venice, Fortuna, and John Law3. Rome: Greeting the Returning Gods and Sponsa Christi4. The Mediterranean: Pound, Yeats, Stevens and the “Godly Sea”Part Two: Meetings5. “And Some Climbing” -- Dante6. Poetry, History and Myth: Montale 7 “My Best Translator”: Carlo Izzo8. James Laughlin and “‘Ma’ Riess of Rapallo” Part Three: Readings9. The Law and How To Break It: Canto 2210. China in Different Voices11. Repeating the Past: Canto 4712. Poet as Anthropologist: “European Paideuma”13. Moscardino and Enrico Pea (“pronounced peh-ah”)14. The Italian Cantos 72 and 7315. The Pisan Cantos in Progress16. The Scandal of the CantosPart Four: Endings17. America and Italy in the Posthumous Cantos18. “I wish he would explain his explanation”: Pound and Stevens as self-explicators19. E.P., H.D., and the Making of End to Torment20. Sant’Ambrogio in the Half-LightAfterwordChronologyWorks Cited

'[Ezra Pound, Italy and The Cantos] is the most intimate and comprehensive look at Pound's creative process and the degree to which it is linked to his favoured places, art and history in Italy.'Gary Geddes, Pacific Rim Review of Books

Massimo Bacigalupo is emeritus professor of American literature at the University of Genoa, Italy, author of The Forméd Trace: The Later Poetry of Ezra Pound (Columbia University Press, 1980) and more recently the editor of Pound’s Posthumous Cantos (Carcanet, 2016). His articles and reviews have appeared in the Paris Review, Modern Language Review, Yale Review, Notes & Queries, The Wallace Stevens Journal, etc. He has edited and translated works by Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Dickinson, Melville, Eliot, Stevens, Faulkner, and Heaney. Bacigalupo grew up in Rapallo, in a family of doctors that knew Pound and his relatives as patients and friends. In 1985 he curated a centenary Pound exhibition in Rapallo. He has edited new editions and translations of the poetry, and is widely acknowledged as one of Pound’s foremost interpreters.

• Part One: Places1. How to Read The Cantos, or Rapallo Revisited2. City vs. Country: Venice, Fortuna, and John Law3. Rome: Greeting the Returning Gods and Sponsa Christi4. The Mediterranean: Pound, Yeats, Stevens and the “Godly Sea”Part Two: Meetings5. “And Some Climbing” -- Dante6. Poetry, History and Myth: Montale 7 “My Best Translator”: Carlo Izzo8. James Laughlin and “‘Ma’ Riess of Rapallo” Part Three: Readings9. The Law and How To Break It: Canto 2210. China in Different Voices11. Repeating the Past: Canto 4712. Poet as Anthropologist: “European Paideuma”13. Moscardino and Enrico Pea (“pronounced peh-ah”)14. The Italian Cantos 72 and 7315. The Pisan Cantos in Progress16. The Scandal of the CantosPart Four: Endings17. America and Italy in the Posthumous Cantos18. “I wish he would explain his explanation”: Pound and Stevens as self-explicators19. E.P., H.D., and the Making of End to Torment20. Sant’Ambrogio in the Half-LightAfterwordChronologyWorks Cited

'[Ezra Pound, Italy and The Cantos] is the most intimate and comprehensive look at Pound's creative process and the degree to which it is linked to his favoured places, art and history in Italy.'Gary Geddes, Pacific Rim Review of Books