Bøger af Ira B. Nadel

I over halvtreds år har Leonard Cohen været en markant skikkelse inden for musikken og litteraturen. Men trods de mange år i mediernes søgelys, har den blufærdige canadier altid værnet om sit privatliv og ladet digte, romaner og sange tale for sig selv. Med denne biografi, som Leonard Cohen selv har autoriseret, åbnes der endelig for mysteriet om manden bag rockens dybeste stemme. Bogen kommer omkring det hele: kvinderne, stofferne, depressionerne, Zenbuddhismen. Og hele tiden sammenflettes liv og værk, så vi ser hvordan det ene indvirker på det andet. “Fremragende biografi ... kan anbefales både for sin dybde og sit forbavsende letlæste sprog.”Gaffa“Er du (også) stor fan af crooneren, der har foræret os klassikere som ’Suzanne’ og ’I’m your man’, er bogen et must til boghylden.”Eurowoman

Drawing on a series of new sources, this biography of Ezra Pound - the first to appear in more than a decade - outlines his contribution to modernism through a detailed account of his development, influence and continued significance. His roles as editor, translator and critic, plus his attempt to complete The Cantos , are also studied.

Ezra Pound is one of the most visible and influential poets of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most complex, his poetry containing historical and mythical allusions, experiments of form and style and often controversial political views. Yet Pound's life and work continue to fascinate. This Introduction, first published in 2005, is designed to help students reading Pound for the first time. Pound scholar Ira B. Nadel provides a guide to the rich webs of allusion and stylistic borrowings and innovations in Pound's writing. He offers a clear overview of Pound's life, works, contexts and reception history and his multidimensional career as a poet, translator, critic, editor, anthologist and impresario, a career that placed him at the heart of literary modernism. This invaluable and accessible introduction explains the huge contribution Pound made to the development of modernism in the early twentieth century.