title: Personae: Collected Shorter Poems
author:  Ezra Pound 
description: New Directions has been the primary publisher of Ezra Pound in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1936. That year Pound was fifty-one. In Laughlin&#8217;s first letter to Pound, he wrote: &#8220;Expect, please, no fireworks. I am bourgeois-born (Pittsburgh); have never missed a meal. . . . But full of &#8216;noble caring&#8217; for something as inconceivable as the future of decent letters in the US.&#8221; Little did Pound know that into the twenty-first century the fireworks would keep exploding as readers continue to find his books relevant and meaningful.
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  THE FABER LIBRARr—No.
  17
  EZRA POUND
  SELECTED POEMS
  
  EZRA POUND
  SELECTED POEMS
  EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION
  BY
  T.
  S. ELIOT
  *
  THIS
  SELECTION
  INCLUDES
  PERSON.E OF EZRA POUND
  RIPOSTES
  LUSTRA
  CATHAY
  H.
  S. MAUBERLEY
  AND SOME EARLY POEMS
  REJECTED BY THE AUTHOR
  AND OMITTED FROM
  HIS COLLECTED EDITION
  LONDON
  FABER
  &" FABER LIMITED
  
  FIRST PUBLISHED IN MGMXXVIII
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  24 RUSSELL SQUARE LONDON W.C. I
  REPRINTED FOR
  THIS NEW EDITION MCMXXXIII
  BY KIMBLE & BRADFORD, LONDON, W.I
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  INTRODUCTION
  MR.
  EZRA POUND recently made for publica-
  tion in New York a volume of
  ' collected
  poems
  ' under the title of Persona. ^
  I made
  a few suggestions for omissions and inclu-
  sions
  in
  a similar
  collection
  to
  be published
  in
  London
  ;
  and
  out of discussions of such
  matters
  with Pound arose the spectre of an introduction by
  myself.
  The poems
  which
  I
  wished
  to
  include,
  from
  among
  those which
  the author had omitted,
  are
  found together at the back of the book.
  The ord