Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho, on October 30, He completed two years of college at the University of Pennsylvania and earned a degree from Hamilton College in After teaching at Wabash College for two years, he travelled abroad to Spain, Italy, and London, where, as the literary executor of the scholar Ernest Fenellosa, he became interested in Japanese and Chinese poetry.
In , he moved to Italy; during this period of voluntary exile, Pound became involved in Fascist politics, and did not return to the United States until , when he was arrested on charges of treason for broadcasting Fascist propaganda by radio to the United States during World War II. In , he was acquitted, but declared mentally ill and committed to St.
Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D. During his confinement, the jury of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry which included a number of the most eminent writers of the time decided to overlook Pound's political career in the interest of recognizing his poetic achievements, and awarded him the prize for the Pisan Cantos After continuous appeals from writers won his release from the hospital in , Pound returned to Italy and settled in Venice, where he died, a semi-recluse, on November 1, Volume I Selected Prose: Open Preview See a Problem?
Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. This is a heart-pounding and devastating mystery the scope and consequences of which go far beyond what father or son could ever have imagined. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. All his life, he has had visions of tragedies to come. When he experiences the vision of a great bird shot from the sky, he knows something terrible is about to happen.
Roadblocked by lies from the highest levels of government, uncertain who to trust, and facing growing threats the deeper they dig for answers, the three men finally understand that to get to the truth, they will have to face the great menace, a beast of true evil lurking in the woods—a beast with a murderous intent of unimaginable scale.
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To ask other readers questions about Desolation Mountain , please sign up. I certainly hope this is not the END of this series? WKK is pretty closed-mouth about it. William McLoughlin Went to see him speak and sign books after this was published. He has at least three more books in the pipeline, including a companion book to …more Went to see him speak and sign books after this was published. He has at least three more books in the pipeline, including a companion book to "Ordinary Grace;" a throw-back to earlier in Cork's life; and the sequel to this book.
See all 3 questions about Desolation Mountain…. Lists with This Book. When Cork's son Stephen has a vision, one he doesn't understand he turns to the now ancient midi, Henry. Love his character, though he is now a hundred years old. A senators plane crashes, a senator whose agenda angered many. She was sympathetic to those on the Iron Lake reservation who were against the mines being reopened.
The runoff from the mine would pollute the crystal clear water that was depended on by many. This is another series of that I have read from the beginning, so it feels like a When Cork's son Stephen has a vision, one he doesn't understand he turns to the now ancient midi, Henry. This is another series of that I have read from the beginning, so it feels like a visit to old friends.
I love the mix of the Indian culture, mystery, close family relations, and the setting of the amazing boundary Waters. Mans greed knows no bounds, was the plane crashes an accident or something else? Every government agency is on the ground, an old friend makes an appearance, and when some of the natives go missing Cork is determined to find out exactly what happened. The danger will come too close to home, affecting those Cork loves best.
Too close for comfort,and it left me holding my breath. Okay, the ending, I'll just say it left me very emotonal. Such a good series. View all 10 comments. Sep 13, Phrynne rated it it was amazing Shelves: Having read my way through the whole series I have been waiting for this book to come out and boy was it worth the wait!
Desolation Mountain (Cork O'Connor #17) by William Kent Krueger
It was so good to visit with old friends again. Stephen gets a lot of mileage in this book and hopefully begins to see himself as he really is. Waaboo continues to lay claim to our hearts and gets a burger named after him. Cork is still enjoying his marriage to Rainey but Desolation Mountain does not spend much time talking about relationships because there is a lot of very ser Having read my way through the whole series I have been waiting for this book to come out and boy was it worth the wait!
Cork is still enjoying his marriage to Rainey but Desolation Mountain does not spend much time talking about relationships because there is a lot of very serious action and some very dangerous enemies are in play. A new character, Bo Thorson, appears. He is already known to Cork and appears to be on their side but is he actually a double agent?
As a side note William Kent Krueger lets us know that this character features in a stand alone novel he wrote called The Devil's Bed. That has gone straight onto my want to read list! I loved Desolation Mountain and finished it in record time.
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Sadly I now have a really long wait to the next one which I predict will need at least two boxes of tissues! View all 7 comments. Sep 26, Darlene rated it really liked it Shelves: I have read several books in this series and I advise that although you CAN read this installment as a 'stand-alone' novel, I believe 'Desolation Mountain' will be more enjoyable and understandable if you start at the beginning of the series. The characters' lives and relationships are ever growing and changing and following these characters throughout the series provides a richness to the reader's experience.
Desolation Mountain opens with a perplexing vision, experienced by Stephen O'Connor, the son of protagonist Cork O'Connor, whose Native American heritage has bestowed upon him a gift or perhaps a curse.. Stephen is frustrated and struggling with his inability to decipher these visions; and the particular vision which begins this story leaves him feeling desperate for insight He is that boy and he is not The bird appears out of the dark boil of clouds. Wings spread broad catching the wind. Curling in a wider arc above the hill. The bird-clearly an eagle now- lets out a screech.
The boy raises the bow. The eagle circles, near enough that the boy can see the details The boy draws back the bowstring. Calculates trajectory, wind, speed. Lets the arrow fly. The great bird twists in an explosion of feathers. Tries to right itself. Cork O'Connor, a former sheriff in the county, is part of the Tamarack County Search and Rescue Team; and when the plane crashes into Desolation Mountain, Cork and Stephen join members of the Ojibwe tribe in searching fro the senator and her family among the wreckage.
Shortly after the group begins their search, they are interrupted by a flood of government agents This sight arouses Cork's curiosity and suspicion; and who members of the tribe who were at the crash site begin to disappear a couple of days later, Cork decides to begin a covert investigation of his own. Cork wants answers and although the official story being dispensed by the government is that the plane crashed due to pilot error, Cork can't help but wonder why, if that is true, Desolation Mountain is still teeming with federal agents.
And what about Stephen's vision? Was the eagle in the vision symbolic of Senator McCarthy's plane? And what happened to his friends from the reservation? Have they been kidnapped and why? This story is filled with mystery and suspense and if you love a good government conspiracy story, you will enjoy this book. I raced through the pages, all the while trying to determine which government officials might be trustworthy and which ones were operating with their own secret agendas.
Although I'm not a believer in conspiracy theories because there are too many uncontrollable moving parts, I somehow did not find it too incredible to think that a government just might have an agenda which its citizens know nothing about. The aspect of this story that I loved most was the mysticism of the Ojibwe tribe, which William Kent Krueger describes beautifully. His writing illustrates the sacredness and respect the tribe holds for the land and also the deep connection the tribe feels to the earth.
In this way, Mr. Krueger's writing reminds me of Louise Erdrich and Tony Hillerman, who also write of the Native American experience in similar ways. This latest installment in the Cork O'Connor series is filled with intrigue and is an excellent page-turning experience. View all 3 comments. A lot of controversy in the Goodreads reviews. Senator is coming to town to speak against a planned mining operation and perhaps her broader agenda against arming violent regimes in unstable places around the world , but her plane crashes mysteriously before landing in Tamarack County.
The locals are cleared off the crash site and agents from all sorts of different federal agencies appear. When nobody bothers to speak to the pair who called in the cra A lot of controversy in the Goodreads reviews. Then, a number of people from the Rez start disappearing, and an old friend ex-Secret Service agent, Bo Thorson appears and starts to help. Initially, the crash is blamed on pilot error, but none of the agents leave, and there are some other interlopers there, with a different agenda entirely.
Stephen plays an important role here, especially his likely role as a successor to the aging Mide, Henry Meloux. Then, Cork's family is threatened and worse. This series is centered on Cork, his love of family, especially Uncle Henry and grandson Waboo, and his Native American heritage and friends. While Krueger's books are ostensibly about unsolved murders, there is plenty to give you faith in families, love, nature, values, honesty, spirits, friendship. Krueger's great love for the wilderness shines here and elsewhere. Aug 15, LJ rated it it was amazing Shelves: He watches the boy on the steep rise above him.
A private plane crashes on Desolation Mountain. Among those on board was Senator McCarthy and most of her family. Getting to the crash site and investigating the wreckage isn't as routine as normal as barriers are erected, first responders disappear, and it appears to Cork O'Conner and his son Stephen that something darker is at work. Cork meets up with private security consultant Bo Thorson, but even his motives become questionable First Sentence: Cork meets up with private security consultant Bo Thorson, but even his motives become questionable as they find the danger at hand is far greater than imagined.
Henry's philosophies are ones from which we could all learn. This is in spite of the ominous nature of the vision Stephen had, the latest of visions he has had all his life. One can only imagine how terrible it would be to experience visions which foretell only terrible things and which come to pass. Krueger's character descriptions can be unusual, yet very visual—"Monkey Love looked like the Devil had walked all over him, the result of years of addiction to booze and drugs. Instead, he provides a well-done introduction to Bo, and to Bo's pragmatism which is both admirable and sad.
It is hard to explain the wisdom conveyed by Krueger through his characters except to say it rings more true than anything one is normally taught. It truly makes one think about everything by which we are surrounded. Even so, the question is raised as to who can be trusted. Krueger is very good at creating a sense of danger, especially at points of calm. When action does occur, it is very effective. Such good suspense is created by taking one up to a point of resolution and then introducing a complete plot twist.
As is known from recent events, there are none more destructive than those who believe they know better than others. In the end, is a statement those who follow the series will acknowledge as being true, although sadder fact has rarely been written. Yet, in spite of it, there is a contrasting truth to which we must all hold strong. It is suspenseful and exciting, yet it also exposes things which are painful while creating hope. View all 8 comments. Just a few paragraphs into this book and I could feel myself relaxing and melding into its atmosphere.
This vision is recurring, and it is menacing. I gradually came to understand parts of Stephen's vision, and I also feared what it meant. My dread increased as the end of the book neared. A plane carrying a U. Senator has crashed near Desolation Mountain, a place that the O Just a few paragraphs into this book and I could feel myself relaxing and melding into its atmosphere. Senator has crashed near Desolation Mountain, a place that the Ojibwe view as cursed.
Confusion reigns when numerous agencies arrive on the scene to investigate, and they push local law enforcement and residents aside. This book was well-written with characters who have grown over the course of this wonderful series. I especially liked Stephen, who at 20 is finding his path in life. I believe he is headed for major roles in future books.
View all 6 comments. I barely finished this one. But I plodded along and fought the urge to quit it. Now, I'm sorry I did finish. Because the explanations were as poor as the confusions were humongous. The joylessness of this group has become overwhelming as a "mide" characteristic, IMHO.
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But that's not the entire problem. It's not only the woo-woo element that has gone ballistic. His last one was over preachy. This one is just a combination of conspiracy theories fare, governmental agency impossibilities, coupled wi I barely finished this one. This one is just a combination of conspiracy theories fare, governmental agency impossibilities, coupled with just plain ridiculous "boogie" men that are stereotyped and not real in any form of character development.
It was not until some twenty-six years later that an opportunity arose to publish them in Japan. Containing all of the earliest works that survived, he decided to add the subtitle Early Poems Without abandoning the role abstraction might play in writing, he returned to the semantic and human values of story-telling in poetry, even adopting and adapting in a highly deformed or skeletal posthumous manner the sonnet form. To the intellectual sorrows of Wittgenstein would be added the still more poignant ones of Anna Akhmatova.
But we can see, even in Alogon, early signs of these tendencies in the formal adoption of two- and three-line stanzaic units, thematic strains of chance playing themselves out against generalized suggestive narrativity, and an overall appreciation for human frailty. Among these frailties the author counted the desire to communicate, not only within the intensive formal boundaries of the lyric but within the seemingly more comprehensive or boundless epic form.
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Where the short form of the lyric never less than 3 stanzas of 4-lines each or 12 lines per poem lent itself to writing in hotel rooms, abstract residues of the epic form reflected his ongoing travels around the world. Glass on the frontispiece, and a cyan-toned photograph by the author, 6.
Emilio Mazzoli Editore, In Beijing, he seeks out the remaining hutongs alleyways and siheyuan courtyard houses of old Peking. In Shanghai, he gazes down the Bund at night from his hotel room and tries to imagine what this famous boulevard was like before it was architecturally redimensionalized in the name of progress. An Earring Depending from the Moon: Glass, Venice, November , on the frontispiece, 9.
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Poems , Richard Milazzo writes more darkly than usual about a world that seems to be dangling over a precipice. In the North Florida poems, desire and oblivion are objectified through the landscape. The fragrant world of honeysuckle and jasmine, and W. Poems should have beginnings, middles and ends. Circus in the Fog: In Circus in the Fog: Louis Missouri and Santa Monica California. Glass on the frontispiece, 10 color reproductions and a black and white photograph of the publisher by the artist, 16 x 11 in. Glass on the frontispieces, and color photographic illustrations on the cover by the author, 8 x 5.
Poems of Romania by Richard Milazzo comprises the poems the author wrote mostly while in Budapest and traveling across Romania in the winter of Glass on the frontispiece, and a color illustration by Ross Bleckner, 6. Pasian di Prato Udine , Italy: The author would finally go to China five years later, in , and write while he was there, Stone Dragon Bridge: Still odder, a preponderance of the poems in Small China Moon were written in New York City, with the exception of a handful written in Prague and the American Southwest. About this book the Italian scholar, poet, and translator Peter Carravetta writes: Keats Dying in Your Arms: Glass on the frontispiece, 6.
While it is, in part, a sorrowful book, indeed, sometimes mournful in tone, where it considers the events of World War II in Poland, there is also what could be described as a redemptive erotic undertone that finds its way into the writing as the poet travels from place to place. But the poems are unrelenting, nonetheless, in the way they seek out, and sometimes find, absolution in the smallest details that can often go by unnoticed or in abstract lyrical gestures that would embrace the world at its most sublime and even at its lowest depths.
Glass on the frontispiece, and 27 color reproductions, Wherever he goes, the light of its sensibility refines sounds, images and ideas, compresses myths and emphasizes mysterious lost cities, surreal landscapes, solitary deserts and dead seas, seemingly bringing back to life civilizations not yet dead.
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Both have the rare gift of revealing the Orient in its negligee, glistening in the sun, with the past and present mingled by the sand and the sea. From Petra to Wadi Rum, the poet walks on a rope of grass, and in magical wooden boats he crosses from Damascus to the Valley of the Kings, dragging the world from ruins and cruel reality to mystery and joy. It is a poetry so open that it allows itself to be transformed by the hidden beauty and truth of other people and places.
It contains a signed and numbered copy of the book and six prints based on the works on paper reproduced in the volume. There are also in this volume poems written in Paris, Milan, Florence, and Venice. And he manages as always to find not only in the architectural monuments but in the history of these stones erotic predicates: It should surprise no one that after publishing fifteen books of poetry in Italy, Serbia, Romania, and Japan, in the course of twenty years, he is still without an American publisher.
Here is a global poet who has yet to publish a single book in his own country! Libri Canali Bassi, Except for a handful of poems written in Paris and Geneva, Frost Heaves: Poems by Richard Milazzo, was written entirely in the U. Every big city had a Chinatown. Now it is our cities that have become a small part of Chinatown. Perhaps not so enigmatically, the author continues: Perhaps there is a metaphor in that. Of course, the allusion to Robert Frost in the title, both the swerve toward and away from him, is intentional.
For solace he turns often to nature in the form of an erotic dimension, abstract and louche, elevated and lowly, transcendent even and unrelentingly marginalized.
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The author has previously collaborated with the Italian painter and sculptor Alessandro Twombly, the German sculptor Abraham David Christian, and the Italian photographer Carlo Benvenuto. The drawings accompanying this volume of poetry are by William Anastasi, one of the progenitors of conceptual art in America. Like Branches to Wind: Glass on the frontispiece, with reproductions of 32 watercolors by Charles Clough, a preface by the author and a note by the artist. Glass on the frontispiece, 7. In Like Branches to Wind: Poems , Richard Milazzo writes: And the greater the work, the more welcoming.
Clough speaks of the classical Chinese style of working, the ink and brush medium. Besides the direct or indirect references in the poems to these painterly ingredients, the title itself of the book, Like Branches to Wind, is evocative of the gesture of a Chinese paint or watercolor brush grazing, interacting, with the surface of the paper. While the poems are strict or disciplined in their utilization of certain stylistic conventions, or the contours thereof — in the case of the sonnet form or the four-line stanza in general, in their giving of specific dates and places of composition of each poem —, they remain loose or open, indeed, downright louche, in their willingness to engage the world and its contents indiscriminately and without reservation.
The poetry proceeds from poem to poem, in a linear fashion, as it were, not by themes, even though certain themes, certain tropes, might emerge along the way. They are organized chronologically, and place is determined by wherever I am at the time, whatever country I find myself in. There is no such thing as a poem that is inappropriate relative to any given book. Nor is there any concern about presenting the reader with anything other than the momentary life of a poem.
Narrating that lyrical moment is all that matters to me, much in the same way that the most effective way of handling the brushstroke is quintessential to how Clough renders an image at any given moment, no matter how light or heavy to the touch, no matter how remote or proximate, no matter how literal or abstract. Louis, Philadelphia, and Santa Monica.