Ezra Pound, Noh Theater, and Submission




Literature Lab show

Summary: Carrie Preston from Boston University tells her story of reckoning with American poet Ezra Pound's Cantos, several of which he wrote while incarcerated.  These poems eventually take her to Japan to study Noh Theater.  What do we do with Pound's demanding poetry and fascist politics?  Where can we learn something from submission, and where can't we?