Treason

He betrayed his coun­try, his wife, his mis­tress, and his art.… or did he? Treason is the extra­or­di­nary story of American poet and icon­o­clast Ezra Pound – and the five women in his life. The man who was the most promis­ing poet in the English-speaking world – as well as friend and men­tor to T.S. Eliot and James Joyce – was also accused of trea­son and ulti­mately con­fined to a men­tal insti­tu­tion for twelve years.

Treason cov­ers two and half decades in Pound’s life, trav­els from Italy to Washington, D.C., and intro­duces char­ac­ters as var­ied as seg­re­ga­tion­ist John Kasper and “beat” poet Allen Ginsberg.

Treason explores the poet, the anti-semite and the fire­brand, Ezra Pound, who would betray his art, his coun­try, his wife, his mis­tress and every­one he knew.

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