PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Ezra Pound was born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho. He came toEurope in 1898 and settled in London, where he was to meetYeats, Eliot, Ford, Hulme and Gaudier-Brzeska. In 1920 hemoved to Paris, and later to Rapallo. His acquaintances bynow included Joyce, Hemingway, Brancusi, Picabia,Cocteau, Antheil and C. H. Douglas. During the SecondWorld War he broadcast over Rome Radio - for which,eventually, he was tried for treason in Washington. He wascommitted to a hospital for the insane, where he was heldfor thirteen years. He was released in 1958 and returned toItaly, dying in Venice in 1972.
''The best of Pound's writing - and it is in the Cantos - will last as long asthere is any literature.'' - Ernest Hemingway
