Lustra

Lustra is an extended selection of short poems by Ezra Pound, printed in 1916, and written during the preceding years of 1913–1916. Much has been written of the extraordinary life, character, and politics of Ezra Pound; however, I would like to draw some attention, if I can, to a delicate half forgotten work from a time of genesis--the brief years of tension before the great war--a time in which the artistic revolution that had begun with Flaubert and Baudelaire began to crystallise. More t...