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Ezra Pound Reading

Ezra Pound Reading
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American writer Ezra Pound experimented with many different poetic forms. He wrote short poems attempting to capture one precise image, as well as long epic works. Here Pound reads an excerpt from his work Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: Life and Contacts (1920), which chronicles what Pound saw as the deterioration of modern America.
"Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" written and read by Ezra Pound, from A Century of Recorded Poetry: In Their Own Voices (Cat.# Rhino Word Beat R2R4 72408) (p)1996 Rhino Records Inc. A Caedmon recording reproduced by arrangement with Harper Audio, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. www.harperaudio.com. All rights reserved.
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American Literature: Poetry; Pound, Ezra
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