{"product_id":"the-cantos-9780811213264","title":"The Cantos","description":"Delmore Schwartz said about \u003cem\u003eThe Cantos\u003c\/em\u003e: \"They are one of the touchstones of modern poetry.\" William Carlos WIlliams said \"[Pound] discloses history by its odor, by the feel of it--in the words; fuses it with the words, present and past, to MAKE his \u003cem\u003eCantos\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eMake\u003c\/em\u003e them.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Since the 1969 revised edition, the Italian Cantos LXXII and LXXIII (as well as a 1966 fragment concluding the work) have been added. Now appearing for the first time is Pound's recently found Eglish translation of Italian Canto LXXII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePound, Ezra:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - New Directions has been the primary publisher of \u003cstrong\u003eEzra Pound\u003c\/strong\u003e in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1936. That year Pound was fifty-one. In Laughlin's first letter to Pound, he wrote: \"Expect, please, no fireworks. I am bourgeois-born (Pittsburgh); have never missed a meal. . . . But full of 'noble caring' for something as inconceivable as the future of decent letters in the US.\" Little did Pound know that into the twenty-first century the fireworks would keep exploding as readers continue to find his books relevant and meaningful.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614795567378,"sku":"9780811213264","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f8a9371f-88b2-478a-85de-970e7fe6b66e.jpg?v=1732463829","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-cantos-9780811213264","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}