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Ezra Pound in the Present; Essays on Pound’s Contemporaneity

Paul Stasi and Josephine Park, editors

251pp.; 23.6 x 16.3 cm. White paper covered boards printed in grey.

Published London: Bloomsbury, 2016

Part of Scholarship, III

From the library of A. David Moody

Essays upon Pound’s relevance Today (2016). First edition, a fine copy, with David Moody’s marginalia to the introduction.

Contents: Part I, Pound’s Methods: Charles Altieri, “Why Pound’s Imagist Poems Still Matter”; Josephine Park, “Not-So-Distant Reading”; Aaron Jaffe, “Paleolithic Media: Deep Time and Ezra Pound’s Methods”; Part II, Pound’s Worlds: Christopher Bush, ‘“I am all for the triangle”: The Geopolitical Aesthetic of Pound’s Japan’; Jean-Michel Rabaté, “Ezra Pound and the Globalization of Literature”; Christine Froula, “Ezra Pound and the Comparative Literature of the Present, or, Triptych Rome/London/Pisa”; Part III, Pound’s Values: Paul Stasi, “Ezra Pound and the Critique of Value”; C. D. Blanton, “Ezra Pound’s Effective Demand: Keynes, Causality, and The Cantos.