THE ITALIAN CANTOS  

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CANTO LXXII

Canto LXXII [English version]. Audio recording, 2021. 

Read by Katarina Cuellar

Piano:   Hubert Bergmann

Augsburg, 23 March 2021

Copyright © 1934, 1968 by Ezra Pound. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. ; 2021, Cuellar and Bergmann. Published by The Cantos Project on 26 April 2021.

LXXII–LXXIII BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS

Ross, Jack. Pound’s Fascist Cantos (72 & 73) together with Rimbaud’s “Poets at Seven Years Old.” Trans. Jack Ross. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 1997.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS AND COLLECTIONS

1. Bacigalupo, Massimo. “Ezra Pound’s Cantos 72 and 73: An Annotated Translation.” Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 20.1-2 (1991): 9-41.
2. Bacigalupo, Massimo. “The Poet at War: Ezra Pound’s Suppressed Italian Cantos.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 83.1 (1984): 69-79.
3. Bacigalupo, Massimo. “‘Republican Correspondence’ – The Italian Cantos 72 and 73.” In Massimo Bacigalupo. Ezra Pound, Italy and The Cantos. Clemson: Clemson UP, 2020. 169-96.
4. Bush, Ronald. “Towards Pisa: More from the Archives about Pound’s Italian Cantos.” Agenda 34.3/4 (1996/7): 89-124. 
5. Cantrell, Carol H., and Ward Swinson. “The China-Adams Cantos Again: What Kind of Textbook?” Paideuma 20.3 (Winter 1991): 75-78.  Responding to Reed Way Dasenbrock's response in Paideuma 19.3 (Winter 1990) to the authors's two-part essay in Paideuma 17.2-3 (Fall-Winter 1988) and Paideuma 18.1-2 (Spring-Fall 1989). Free online.
6. Cockram, Patricia. “Collapse and Recall: Ezra Pound’s Italian Cantos.” Journal of Modern Literature 23.3-4 (2000): 535-544.
7. Dasenbrock, Reed Way. “Cantos 72 and 73: What Kind of Textbook?” Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 19.3 (1990): 31. 
8. Eastman, Barbara C. “The Gap in the Cantos: 72 and 73.” Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 8.3 (1979): 415-27.
9. Espey, John. “Sidelights from the Italian and German Cantos.” Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 8.2 (1979): 297-9. 
10. Pratt, William. “Pound’s Hells, Real and Imaginary.” Ezra Pound: Nature and Myth. Ed. William Pratt. New York: AMS Press, 2002. 113-23. 
11. Ricciardi, Caterina. “Cantos 72-73.” Readings in The Cantos. Ed. Richard Parker. Vol.2. Clemson: Clemson UP, 2022. 181-92.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND SECTIONS

1. Bacigalupo, Massimo. “The Cantos: Cantos LXXII-LXXIII.” The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia. Eds. D. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen J. Adams. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 2005. 39-41.
2. Taylor, Richard Dean. “Towards a Textual Biography of The Cantos.” Modernist Writers and the Marketplace. Eds. Ian Willison, Warwick Gould, and Warren Chernaik. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1996. 223-57.
3. Wilhelm, J. J. Ezra Pound The Tragic Years. 1925-1972. University Park: The Pennsylvania State UP, 1994. 207-09.

DIGITAL RESOURCES

1. Bacigalupo, Massimo and Jack Ross. “Correspondence: Pound’s Italian Cantos.” [on Jack Ross’s “Pound’s Fascist Cantos Revisited”] ka mate ka ora 4 (September 2007). Web. 21 Dec. 2015. Free online.
2. Hoff, Anne-Christine. “Ezra Pound’s Salò Cantos: Fascism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Feminism in War-Ravaged Italy.”  M.A., New York U, 1997.  Free online.
3. Ross, Jack. “Poetry Live and Ezra Pound.” [Blog entry containing a translation of Canto LXXII with annotation and bibliography]. The imaginary museum, 31 March 2007. Web. 21 December 2015. Free online.
4. Ross, Jack. “Pound’s Fascist Cantos Revisited.” ka mate ka ora 3 (March 2007). Web. 21 Dec. 2015. Free online.
5. Ross, Jack. “Afterword: Pound’s Italian Cantos.” Jackrossopinions.blogspot.co.uk, 1 September 2013. Web. 24 December 2017.  Free online.