Ezra Pound, Ends and Beginnings

Essays and Poems from the Ezra Pound International Conference Venice, 2007

Edited by John Gery and William Pratt Contents

Preface vii Note on References xi Acknowledgments xiii

/. Pound in Venice

1. Tim Redman, "Mussolini's First Years and Last Months: What Did Pound Know about II Duce's Beginning and End?" 3 2. David Barnes, " 'Ct/Volpe's Neck': Re-approaching Pound's Venice in the Fascist Context" 17 3. Massimo Bacigalupo, "City vs. Country in Pound: Venice, Fortuna, and John Law" 31 4. Anne Conover, "Deliverance! Ezra Pound's Last Days" 43

//. Pound's Poetry

5. Reka Mihalka, "Appropriated Orientation: Whistler and Pound" 55 6. Peter Liebregts, " 'Bricks thought into being ex nihil': Ezra Pound and Creation" 81 7. Helen May Dennis, "Primitivism in Poundian Poetics: The Modernist Quest for Ancient Wisdom" 97 8. Peter Nicholls, "Beginning the End: Ezra Pound and the Poetics of Survival" 121 9. Robert Rehder, "The End of The Cantos" 137 vi EZRA POUND, ENDS AND BEGINNINGS

III. Pound's Legacy

10. William Pratt, "Beyond Modernism: Pound as Vatic Poet" 149 11. H. R. Stoneback, " 'I Would ... Be Hanged with You': Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound" 165 12. Ian S. MacNiven, "Poetry and/or Publishing: Pound, Stein, and the Evolution of James Laughlin's New Directions" 179 13. Peggy L. Fox, "Mission Impossible: James Laughlin, Ezra Pound, and the Founding of New Directions" 193

IV. Poems in Honor of Pound

Patrizia de Rachewiltz, "Summer 1958" 207 Robert Rehder, "Entropy" 209 Robert Rehder, "The Surface of the Water" 210 Biljana D. Obradovic, "Lunch in Venice" 211 Biljana D. Obradovic, "Evening Light" 213 Hoshang Merchant, "Tagore Meets Pound VIII" 214 Kevin Kiely, "Mary Pound de Rachewiltz" 215 John Gery, "II Redentore" 216 John Gery, "Miracoli" 217 H. R. Stoneback, From "For EP: In Our Time" 218 Mary de Rachewiltz, "I Was There" 221

Contributors 223

Index 225