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World War II, however, put a stop to Mary's education. During most of the war years she worked in a German hospital in Italy; when she returned home, she learned from her mother that Pound had been taken to an American "Disciplinary Training Center" near Pisa, where he was charged with treason for his broadcasts, and caged. He was not released from the American mental hospital where he had been interned on the eve of his trial until 13 years after his original arrest. Mary's own role in the international effort to free Pound was kept...
...book stands apart from all that has been written about Pound, valuable as an inside story of much of Pound's personal life, but also valuable independently as an autobiography of deep self-perception and sensitive writing, a remarkable accomplishment of literature...
Like much of Pound's poetry, Discretions can be annoyingly obscure, especially for those not in the know about Pound and pre-war Italy. But extensive quotation from Pound's Cantos--along with an index citing the location of the verses--makes much of Pound's difficult poetry come clear...
...daughter of Ezra Pound, for the woman who lived the life of a peasant foundling before discovering a larger world of harsher realities, it is not pretentious but compelling and revelatory to write of age-old plots being played out in the 20th century but "Somewhere between Mamme and Tatte's world on earth and God in Heaven there was an island of demigods not ruled by human laws. Here the range of imagination was wider, feelings more passionate and ruthless....Every myth I came to know, I believed in, and lived through, giving it new twists...
David Reuben, M.D., the California psychiatrist, boyish authority symbol and author of Everything You Always Wanted to know About Sex . . . etc., continues to practice writing without a license. Like EYAWTKAS, his latest effort is an ask-the-answerman approach to sex education and social adjustment. Pound for pound and dollar for dollar, the first book provided a lot more incontestable information. Any Woman Can! makes sense mostly as an overpriced, over-the-counter nostrum marketed to exploit whatever Women's Lib awareness has spread to the nation's largest day-to-day purchasing-power bloc-white, middleclass, heterosexual...