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The Cantos are a collection of epic poems spanning 40 years of writing by one of America’s most controversial poets, Ezra Pound.
The most studied and well-known section is the Pisan Cantos, which were written by the poet during his wartime incarceration
following the American liberation of Italy. The Pisan Cantos are also significant for their inclusion of Chinese characters
and other non English languages in the core of the texts. Forcing the reader to address the ideas of expression and
cultural understanding.With only three books permitted during his detention Pound selected a text by …