Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Cantos LXXII and LXXIII (“The Fascist Cantos”)

This entry is part 57 of 57 in the series Blogging Pound's The Cantos

…. and, we’re back.  Years ago, I started a series of posts covering each poem in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, one (or a few) at a time. I’m picking up that series now, since I have a little time again. (Who knew having a kid would make someone so busy?) The readings are probably still going to remain atypical, not so much for the reasons made clear in my first post in this series as because atypical is my general approach to the Cantos. II seem to have abandoned the fiction project that inspired this series, but I’d like to …

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