An article on how Ezra Pound uses ideas and practices of musical modernism to shape his Pisan Cantos. In particular, the chapter debunks the idea that a ‘fugue’ controls the formal aspects of the poem, demonstrating rather the freedom and looseness of the fugue form, and instead demonstrating Pound’s use of small musical moments of coherence through close examination of primary recordings of Pound reciting his poetry, through examination of letters and commentary, and through a deep understanding of early and modern musicology.

The book can be purchased from Routledge, or consulted (in part) on Google Books.