{"product_id":"the-bughouse-the-poetry-politics-and-madness-of-ezra-pound","title":"The Bughouse: The poetry, politics and madness of Ezra Pound","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Swift, Daniel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e VINTAGE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 08-02-2018\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n‘An extraordinary book of real passionate research’ Edmund de WaalIn 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War. But before the trial could take place Pound was pronounced insane. Escaping a potential death sentence he was shipped off to St Elizabeths Hospital near Washington, DC, where he was held for over a decade. At the hospital, Pound was at his most contradictory and most controversial: a genius writer – ‘The most important living poet in the English language’ according to T. S. Eliot – but also a traitor and now, seemingly, a madman. But he remained a magnetic figure. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and John Berryman all went to visit him at what was perhaps the world’s most unorthodox literary salon: convened by a fascist and held in a lunatic asylum.  Told through the eyes of his illustrious visitors, The Bughouse captures the essence of Pound – the artistic flair, the profound human flaws – whilst telling the grand story of politics and art in the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nReview\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIt is Swift’s considerable achievement sympathetically to examine an extraordinary, often troubling, tale...an enthralling narrative -- Robert McCrum ―\u003cbr\u003e\nObserver\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAn extraordinary book of real passionate research which keeps surprising and illuminating by turns. -- Edmund de Waal\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nLively and searching… He has an engaging authorial presence and his own hesitations and uncertainties about Ezra Pound, both as poet and personality, lend a certain tension and a pleasing piquancy to his narrative -- Eric Ormsby ―\u003cbr\u003e\nTimes Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSwift is a sensitive and thoughtful reader of both poetry and human psychology...\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Bughouse is also a kind of immersive adventure journalism, in which he retraces Pound's steps and tries to unearth new details about his life -- Adam Kirsch ―\u003cbr\u003e\nNew Statesman\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nTo understand an artist as compromised by circumstances – and by his own many contradictions – as Ezra Pound, we have to trace a complex path through a maze of half-truths, myth, and simplification.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Bughouse does so with supreme care, critical acumen, and humanity, shedding a whole new light not only on Pound the man, but also on the shape and character of\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Cantos, one of the most seriously flawed and truly brilliant artworks of the twentieth century -- John Burnside\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA wonderful portrait of Ezra Pound in all his moods - mad, bad and blindingly sane. -- A. Alvarez\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSwift does a fine job of allowing Pound’s many contradictions to stay in place and reminds us, too, that 45 years after his death there are plenty of contradictions left in the people who admire him -- James Walton ―\u003cbr\u003e\nDaily Mail\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIt is a tribute to the brightness of\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Bughouse that Swift has revived my interest in the old monster -- Roger Lewis ―\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Times\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSwift’s strength is his refusal to separate Pound’s writings from the issues of Fascism and insanity... Sharp-eyed and pacey...it highlights memorably the tangled relations between lunatic, lover and poet -- Robert Crawford ―\u003cbr\u003e\nLiterary Review\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n[A] remarkable study of [Ezra Pound’s] fertile afterlife -- Suzi Feay ―\u003cbr\u003e\nFinancial Times\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDaniel Swift teaches at the New College of the Humanities. His first book,\u003cbr\u003e\nBomber County, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Guardian First Book award, and his essays and reviews have appeared in the\u003cbr\u003e\nNew York Times, the\u003cbr\u003e\nNew Statesman, and\u003cbr\u003e\nHarper’s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780099593355\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VINTAGE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50108233646384,"sku":"Trans_9780099593355","price":880.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/81OpgS5oOdL.jpg?v=1756809959","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/products\/the-bughouse-the-poetry-politics-and-madness-of-ezra-pound","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}