AMERICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION
A Coalition of Societies Devoted to the Study of American Authors
29th Annual Conference on American Literature
May 24 – 27, 2018
Hyatt Regency San Francisco 5 Embarcadero Center San Francisco, CA 94111 (415) 788-1234
Friday, May 25, 2018
Session 7-H Ezra Pound and his Palpable Poetics of Environment in The Cantos: The Making Visible of Ideas (Seacliff B)
Organized by the Ezra Pound Society
Chair: Demetres Tryphonopoulos, Brandon UniversityCo-chair: LeeAnn Derdeyn, Southern Methodist University
1. “The Corruption of Literary Culture: Cantos 14 & 15,” Robert von Hallberg, Claremont McKenna College
2. “Geopolitics, Ecopoetics, and Agrarianism in Pound’s Adams Cantos,” LeeAnn Derdeyn, SouthernMethodist University
3. “City Pound: Urbanism & The Poetry of Ezra Pound,” Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia
