Pound Impendeth

The reading for Monday of next week is Ezra Pound's Cantos I-IV, and then it's Cantos V-XVII for Wednesday. If you're looking for some help with these difficult poems, you could try:

• Guy Davenport, Cities on the Hill: A Study of I-XXX of Ezra Pound's Cantos.
• Christine Brooke Rose, A ZBC of Ezra Pound.
• Ronald Bush, The Genesis of Ezra Pound's Cantos.
• Marjorie Perloff, Poetics of Indeterminacy, chap.5.
• Lawrence Rainey, Ezra Pound and the Monument of Culture.

 And not least the ever-helpful Carroll Terrell's Companion to Ezra Pound's Cantos.