Ezra Loomis Pound CANTO XLV - WITH USURA

Click on Youtube to go to Youtube. There is plenty more Pound there. See post below for more on Pound.
I have more posts on this blog about St. Elizabeths mental hospital in Washington D.C. where Ezra Pound was held 12 years after WW2. Also I have posts on this blog about Lester Blackiston a poet from Richmond Virginia who told me he used to visit Pound there in the 1950s.
In Washington D.C. St. Elizabeths is called Saint E's.
Click on those names in the label box below to read those posts.

Ezra Pound

Looking at the video in the post below this one of Venice Italy made me think of Ezra Pound. He spent the last ten years of his life there. That was after he got out of Saint Elizabeths mental hospital in Washington D.C. He had been incarcerated there for 12 years after WW2.
 Before WW2 he lived in the south of Italy. He had been declared a traitor during the war for taking the side of the Nazis and Mussolini and broadcasting his antisemitic views on radio. When got out of St. Elizabeths he was asked what he now thought of America and he replied, "America is a lunatic asylum".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_pound

Ezra Pound

Above Ezra Pound in 1913.
Below Ezra Pound in 1945.


Click the link below to read all about Ezra Pound. I knew a poet named Lester Blackiston who used to visit Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeth's Mental Hospital in Washington D.C. in the 1950s. In the Washington D.C. area everyone refers to Saint Elizabeth's Hospital as Saint E's. Ezra was held there for 12 years after WW2. They thought he was a traitor or crazy or both. Read all about it below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_pound