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The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and Senator William Borah

Sarah C. Holmes, editor
Daniel Pearlman, foreword

95pp.; 23.4 x 15.8 cm. Grey cloth boards lettered in silver down spine. White dust-jacket printed in purple and pink.

Published Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001

Part of Ezra Pound, IV.

A blitz of letters from Pound to Borah to take your breath away, as Holmes puts it, in simultaneous reverence and insult. Borah (1865-1940) very occasionally responds, cordially, but never engages EP. Unlike the Cutting letters, which show a great collaboration, these letters reveal more exclusively Pound’s own economic and political ideas measured against the contemporary stage. A fine copy. Too late for Gallup.