Les Autres.(Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker

Read Poem Hunter/ Ezra Pound/ Poems/ 223/250. You will not be disappointed.
One of Ezra Pound's most significant poems, largely autobiographical, addressed to his fellow-writers ('the rest') , who have stayed in the U.S., while he has emigrated to England then Europe. He pities the American writers, who are living in a Philistine country, where beauty and art are not appreciated. Pound is in exile because of his anti-American and pro-Fascist radio broadcasts before and during World War II: he was punished by the U.S. Government and Army by being imprisoned in a small cell in Pisa, Italy, for the duration. Pound was a man of great spirit when he was under oppression; he did not break down under stress, he saw it through. 'I have weathered the storm/ I have beaten out my exile'. Inspirational.