The novel begins with an account of the family of the major character, known as the "Prince of Journalists." This bizarre family -- the grandparents a soldier and a sodomized woman, the parents an orphaned epileptic and a hunchback -- is matched by Crevel's bizarre syntax and vocabulary: nouns that [...]

In 1938, American poet Ezra Pound published Guide to Kulchur, a book so radically different from his earlier writing that readers might not have believed that it was written by the same firebrand aesthetician who had advocated in 1913 that poets go in fear of abstractions. But Guide to Kulchur was o[...]

Vem var den förste att skriva om Ezra Pound i svensk dagspress? Vem var först att översätta honom till svenska? När började Pound hoppas på att få Nobelpriset? Vem nominerade honom första gången till priset? Vilka akademiledamöter ville ge Pound priset och vilka var emot? Vilka ville Poun[...]

Although the troubadours flourished at the height of the Middle Ages in southern France, their songs of romantic love, with pleasing melodies and intricate stanzaic patterns, have inspired poets and songwriters ever since, from Dante to Chaucer, from Renaissance sonneteers to the Romantics, and from[...]