"Poets know the story of Ezra Pound's confinement in a cage by Allied forces in Italy, where he composed The Pisan Cantos as World War II was ending. No other event has as much to do with the course of American poetry during the second half of the 20th century. Now a great American poet, editor, and translator, Sam Hamill, who has worked in Pound's legacy for years, has visited the site of that old cage and has written his own Pisan Canto. He has added our time's adversities to Pound's, his own lyric wisdom to the earlier master's. The result is a poem of eminent force and pertinence about art in a society at war. All who are concerned for the destiny of American poetry must read it." — Hayden Carruth
Sam Hamill is the author of thirteen volumes of original poetry including Destination Zero, Poems 1970 – 1990, Gratitude, and Dumb Luck, and two dozen volumes translated from ancient Greek, Latin, Estonian, Japanese, and Chinese. He is Founding Editor of Copper Canyon Press and director of the Port Townsend Writers' Conference. He founded Poets Against the War in January 2003, and in March 2003 delivered to Congress 13,000 poems by 12,000 poets and edited a best-selling selection, Poets Against the War (Nation Books, 2003).
A Pisan Canto is offset printed in a limited edition of 500 copies, perfect-bound in an attractive letterpress cover, using an image by Galen Garwood and typeset by Leslie Cox.
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