cover image Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano

Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano

John Tytell. Galilee Book, $19 (404pp) ISBN 978-0-385-19870-7

Tytell here offers an evenhanded, thoughtful biography of one of the most influential poets of our time. A complicated and contradictory man, Pound was both a brilliant creator (and editor) and a destructive force as a wartime fascist spokesman; his life-work, The Cantos , ends with the line ``Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.'' Photos. (October)