James Laughlin, New Directions Press, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound

by Gregory Barnhisel

Although James Laughlin (1914-1997) came from one of Pittsburgh's leading steel-making families, his passions were literary rather than industrial--he wanted to be a poet. Laughlin was a freshman at Harvard when he traveled to Rapallo, Italy, in 1933 to meet Ezra Pound (1885-1972), and he returned the following year to enroll in the poet's "Ezuversity." Pound dismissed Laughlin's poetic talents, advising the wealthy young man to make himself over...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558494782
• ISBN13: 9781558494787
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"