Guide to Kulchur
Jan 1970 · New Directions Paperbook Book 257 · New Directions Publishing
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The Guide to Kulchur, first published in 1938, is one of Ezra Pound's most stimulating books. As might be expected, this is ... an iconoclastic revision of the cultural ... curriculum. In a sequence of short, pungent chapters, Pound covers the whole territory of "kulchur"--The Chinese philosophers to modern poetry, from music to economics--as he discovered it for himself in a lifetime of reading, looking, and listening. ... --New DirectionsDonated by Byron Bartlett.
The Guide to Kulchur, first published in 1938, is one of Ezra Pound's most stimulating books. As might be expected, this is ... an iconoclastic revision of the cultural ... curriculum. In a sequence of short, pungent chapters, Pound covers the whole territory of "kulchur"--The Chinese philosopher...
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New Directions has been the primary publisher of Ezra Pound in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1936. That year Pound was fifty-one. In Laughlin's first letter to Pound, he wrote: "Expect, please, no fireworks. I am bourgeois-born (Pittsburgh); have never missed a meal.... But full of 'noble caring' for something as inconceivable as the future of decent letters in the US." Little did Pound know that into the twenty-first century the fireworks would keep exploding as readers continue to find his books relevant and meaningful.
New Directions has been the primary publisher of Ezra Pound in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1936. That year Pound was fifty-one. In Laughlin's first letter to Pound, he wrote: "Expect, please, no fireworks. I am bourgeoi...
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