Library Item: 251384146
Charles Olson and Ezra Pound : an encounter at St. Elizabeths
1991
In 1945, Charles Olson visited Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeths mental hospital in Washington D.C., where pound was a patient. Over the next two years Olson regularly visited Pound, determined to understand the poet and to resolve the conflict between his profound admiration and contempt for this anti-Semetic, fascist man. This collection of Olson's notes, diaries, and poems documenting his encounters with Pound is the story of one man's search to comprehend the relationship between art and morality, not only in society, but in an individual work of art and in the artist himself.
New York : Paragon House, 1991.
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9 x 6 inches
Gift of Stephanie Kelly