Pirated edition published by a counterculture figurehead
POUND, Ezra. The Cantos of Ezra Pound 110-116. New York: Fuck You Press. 1967.
Small 4to. Mimeographed sheets, stapled. Cover design by Joe Brainard; some age-toning to edges; slight offsetting to pastedown from front free end paper; minimal staining to back cover; internally clean with particularly sharp inking; very good.
First edition, number 239 of 300 copies. The pirated very first appearance of these poems by Ezra Pound. Ed Sanders's piracy forced the official authorised version into publication.
It was in 1960 that Ezra Pound sent drafts of seven cantos to The Paris Review. These draft Cantos passed hands between inteviewer Donald Hall and Tom Clark, who was at the time in the process of completing a thesis on Pound at the University of Cambridge. Years later, Tom Clark shared these precious drafts with literary anarchist Ed Sanders, who had specifically asked for a manuscript that would cause publishing riot. Clark and Sanders commissioned a cover design from Joe Brainard and they mimeographed these 300 copies of the book in Sanders’s apartment. Subsequently, Ed Sanders's bold piracy had the powerful influence of pressuring Ezra Pound into publishing these additions. In this way, the influential poet came to be associated with the Mimeograph revolution.
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