{"product_id":"selected-poems-by-ezra-pound","title":"'Selected Poems' by Ezra Pound","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"33\" data-end=\"727\"\u003eSpanning more than three decades of writing, this New Directions selection offers one of the best single-volume introductions to Ezra Pound's poetry, gathering work from \u003cem data-start=\"203\" data-end=\"213\"\u003ePersonae\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-start=\"215\" data-end=\"223\"\u003eCathay\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-start=\"225\" data-end=\"248\"\u003eHugh Selwyn Mauberley\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-start=\"250\" data-end=\"262\"\u003eThe Cantos\u003c\/em\u003e and later poems.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"33\" data-end=\"727\"\u003eIt reveals the extraordinary range of a poet who helped reshaped twentieth-century literature: translating across languages and traditions, drawing on Chinese, Provençal and Classical sources, and forging a modernism built from fragments, history and startling musical precision. Alongside the brilliance sits the inescapable complexity of Pound's politics, making this a collection that is as historically significant as it is aesthetically influential.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"729\" data-end=\"1107\"\u003eWhether read for the crystalline imagism of his early work, the restless experimentation of the middle period, or the dense historical architecture of \u003cem data-start=\"880\" data-end=\"892\"\u003eThe Cantos\u003c\/em\u003e, these poems remain foundational to modern poetry. For readers interested in modernism, translation, literary history or the genealogy of writers from Eliot to Olson, Zukofsky and beyond, Pound remains unavoidable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"729\" data-end=\"1107\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew Directions Paperbook, thirteenth printing (1957 edition). General shelf wear, rubbing and creasing to the wrappers with age toning throughout. Binding remains sound and the text is clean.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45804234342483,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-07-10T154556.490.png?v=1783662419","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/selected-poems-by-ezra-pound","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}