The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky
University of California Press, November 1994. Trade Paperback. A paradox: Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Louis Zukofsky all wrote their central works to be "masterpieces," synoptic views of the world that would change the very consciousness of the public. And yet these writings are so hard to read..... More