The Water-bugs Mittens : Ezra Pound: What We Can Use by Dickey, James - 1980 [1979]

Bloomfield Hills, MI: Bruccoli Clark. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1980 [1979]. Limited/Numbered Edition. Ephemera. Faint residue at center of title on cover. Two minute, dark specks to front cover. ; Novelist James Dickey's 1979 lecture on Pound at the University of Idaho. Dickey explains his views about the often conflicted and controversial Ezra Pound and explains what may be useful from Pound's life and poetry, and how to separate Pound's life choices from his art. Both praised and reviled, Ezra Pound was a poet, literary critic, and anti-Semitic collaborator with fascists in WWII Italy. Copy 112 of a limited edition of 300. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Short preface and Notes about source material On fine, textured paper in tan, stiff, laid paper wraps. Title to cover in brown with gilt devices. Published by Bruccoli Clark who offered limited editions of lesser known literary and reference works. Matthew J. Bruccoli was an educator and noted bibliographer of F. Scott Fitzgerald. A clean, Near Fine copy. ; Tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 18 pages; Signed by Author .