Ezra Pound Trial (1946):
 Selected Links & Bibliography
by Douglas O. Linder


Ezra Pound at the time of his arrest, 1945

LINKS:

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA VS. EZRA POUND (BY ROBERT WERNICK, "NOTES OF A SCIOLIST")
http://www.robertwernick.com/articles/pound.shtml

EZRA POUND (WIKIPEDIA)
HTTP://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/EZRA POUND

N. Y. TIMES, "RESEARCHERS DISPUTE EZRA POUND'S INSANITY" (BY  HERBERT MITGANG, 10/31/1981)
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/31/books/researchers-dispute-ezra-pound-s-insanity.html

POETS.ORG
HTTP://WWW.POETS.ORG/POET.PHP/PRMPID/161

PENNSOUND, CENTERS FOR PROGRAMS IN CONTEMPORARY WRITING
HTTP://WRITING.UPENN.EDU/PENNSOUND/X/POUND.HTML

Law Library - American Law and Legal Information, Notable Trials and Court Cases - 1941 to 1953
HTTP://LAW.JRANK.ORG/PAGES/2991/EZRA-POUND-TRIAL-1946.HTML

SPEECHIFICATION: THE TRIAL OF EZRA POUND
HTTP://SPEECHIFICATION.COM/2008/07/21/THE-TRIAL-OF-EZRA-POUND/


Ezra Pound, after having been found insane, at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C.


Pound's pro-fascist radio speeches on Italian radio during WW II led to the poet being charged with treason.

additional reading:

Tytell, John. Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano. (New York: Doubleday-Anchor Press, 1987).

Cornell, Julian. the Trial of Ezra Pound (John Day, 1966).

Mullins, Eustace.  Ezra Pound: This Difficult Individual (Fleet, 1961).

Redman, Tim.  Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009).

Torrey, E. Fuller.  The Roots of Treason:  Ezra Pound and the Secrets of St. Elizabeths (Lucas, 1999).

Pound, Ezra.  The Pisan Cantos (collection of poetry written while in prison)

Pound, Ezra.  Pound's Fascist Cantos (Jack Ross, trans.)(1997).