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Ezra Pound Radio Speeches

Page edited by Ben Friendlander and Richard Sieburth

Radio Speeches from World War II, Originally Broadcast over Shortwave Radio from Rome

Speech entitled "Power," recorded by the U.S. Government on Feb. 19, 1942

#11, Feb. 19, 1942, p. 39ff. in the Leonard Dobb edition, see below

(13:40): MP3

Speech entitled "The Pattern", recorded by the U.S. Government on March 30, 1942

#21, March 30, 1942, pp. 78 ff. in the Leonard Doob edition, see below

complete recording (6:06): MP3

Speech entitled "With Phantoms", recorded by the U.S. Government on May 18, 1942

complete recording (6:45): MP3

Speeches on E.E. Cummings

#40 in the Doob edition of Ezra Pound Speaking (see link below): (May 21, 1942), pp. 141-142, “E.E. Cummings Examined.” Full "Reading B" (LOC) (20:49): MP3

Essays:

  • Benjamin Friedlander on Radio Broadcasts: PDF
  • Richard Sieburth on Radio Broadcasts: PDF

Text from speeches:
Ezra Pound Speaking –– Radio Speeches of World War II, ed. Leonard W. Doob (Wesport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978: PDF


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