Ezra Pound, Father Teacher: Discretions [Paperback]

Mary de Rachewiltzs autobiographical account,?Ezra Pound, Father and Teacher, which first appeared as a New Directions Paperbook in 1975, is now reissued with a new afterword by the author. Set against the background of Fascist Italy and the Tyrolean Alps where she spent the early years of her childhood, the story Ezra Pounds daughter movingly reveals is a side of the poet which is seldom touched upon, that of devoted father, and at the same time serves to illuminate many of the more difficult, personal passages of?This story by Ezra Pound's daughter adds to all other testimony something indispensable for a just understanding of his life and work; it is also in its own right a work of literature, a record of great human difficulties and great devotion.