EZRA POUND READS

Pound reads five poems, including HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLY, and eight cantos (I, IV, XXXVI, LXXXIV, XLV, LI, LXXVI, XCIX). This recording will be of great interest to Pound enthusiasts, and perhaps to teachers and students, but may have limited appeal for the general listener. This reviewer found the author’s cadence, especially in the cantos, surprising and illuminating. This is the way Pound intended to be read, and one might not intuit his intentions from the printed texts. R.E.K. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/MAY 02]