Vol.1 (1) - Pound's — “Sestina: Altaforte”

Pound’s — Sestina: Altaforte

Ferrick Gray

Working with Pound

Volume 1, Issue 1

Prefatory Remarks

I was thumbing through Faber’s 2005 reprint of Pound’s Personæ and came across one of my favorite poems by the master. His Sestina: Altaforte. Personæ was originally published in 1926, with Pound creating a body of his shorter poems. Much of his earlier work was omitted from this definitive edition, as he was prepared to dispose of it. He sought something that would define him as both a person and a poet.