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...eleven poems Pound wrote behind U.S. barbed wire have since become known as the "Pisan Cantos" and bring up the rear of his life work, The Cantos. The Cantos, now totaling 84, are a chaotic grab-bag in which the reader can find whatever he wishes, for Pound is both a poetic genius whose work influenced Eliot, Joyce and Yeats, and an intellectual crank who toadied to political cutthroats...
...Pull Down Thy Vanity." The "Pisan Cantos" continue in much the same vein as their predecessors; it's still the same old Ez. He still rants against the capitalists and remembers old friends-T. S. Eliot with acerbity, William Butler Yeats with fondness. At times, he is his old brash and raucous self, praising Benito and gleefully shouting...
...Treasures of Pisa's leading gallery, the Museo Civico, including Pisan sculpture of the 14th and 18th Centuries, Flemish and Florentine tapestries, paintings by Gentile da Fabriano, and Il Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi...
Words of concern appeared in the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: "[May the belligerents] reflect seriously upon the moral consequences of deliberate destruction of Pisan monuments...
...window casements) at $598 to $19,049. And Mr. Hammer had hustled down to Gimbels' groaning floor, and confidently expected eager buyers to snap up a Louis XII carved walnut dresser ($269), a pair of carved 17th-Century Italian stone urns ($598), a suit of 16th-Century Pisan armor ($2,397), Van Dyck's portrait of England's Queen Henrietta Maria...