"Song Up Out of Spain": Poems in Tribute to Ezra Pound: A Bilingual Anthology

Prompted by the occasion of a gala poetry reading at the University of Salamanca, Spain, in July 2019, this anthology is the first of its kind to comprise Anglophone and Spanish speaking poets breathing life into the multifarious poetic legacy of the poet Ezra Pound. A bilingual anthology, it includes 29 poets, 13 of whom write in Spanish and 16 of whom are Anglophone. In recent decades, the Ezra Pound International Conferences taking place worldwide have featured poetry readings in what has become by a well-known tradition. In Salamanca, poets of older and younger generations from five continents paid tribute to Pound, with selections from their work now available in this volume. The anthology includes poems by the Spanish Novisimos poets ("The Newest Ones"), considered in Spain Pound's direct poetic heirs, such as Antonio Colinas, Jaime Siles, Luis Alberto de Cuenca, and Jos?Mar燰 翼varez, but also included here are poems by Jorge Guill幯 from the Generation of '27, as well as Spanish American poets such as Ernesto Cardenal, Gonzalo Rojas Pizarro, Juli嫕 Herbert, and Jeannette Lozano Clariond; also represented are poets of a younger generation: Jordi Doce, Juan Antonio Gonz嫮ez-Iglesias, Ma 聲geles P廨ez L鏕ez, and Natalia Carbajosa.

At the reading in Salamanca, the Anglophone poets, including many devoted Poundians among them, also offered a robust contribution. Still, in concert with their Spanish-speaking counterparts, these poets have also recreated the Spanish world in unusual ways, each reflecting a different, illuminating dimension of Pound's sensibility. Celebrated Anglophone poets present here include David Cappella, John Gery, Patrizia de Rachewiltz, Tony Lopez, Ron Smith, Clive Wilmer, Paul Scott Derrick, Jeff Grieneisen and Silvia Falsaperla, together with distinguished scholars such as David Moody, Alec Marsh, and John Beall, as well as promising voices of a new generation: Rhett Forman, Justin Kishbaugh, Chengru He, and Sean Mark.

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Los poetas angl鏹onos aqu?recogidos, muchos de ellos especialistas en la obra de Pound, enriquecieron igualmente el recital de Salamanca con sus excelentes aportaciones. Paralelamente a sus a los anteriormente citados recrearon adem嫳 el mundo hispano desde perspectivas novedosas, cada uno reflejando una dimensi鏮 diferente y clarificadora de la sensibilidad del autor de los Cantos. Poetas angl鏹onos consagrados presentes aqu?son David Cappella, John Gery, Patrizia de Rachewiltz, Tony Lopez, Ron Smith, Clive Wilmer, Paul Scott Derrick, Jeff Grieneisen y Silvia Falsaperla. Junto a ellos, se incluye a acad幦icos de renombre como David Moody, Alec Marsh y John Beall, as?como prometedoras voces de una nueva generaci鏮: Rhett Forman, Justin Kishbaugh, Chengru He y Sean Mark.