{"product_id":"pound-ezra-lament-of-the-frontier-guard","title":"POUND, Ezra. Lament of the Frontier Guard.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003ePound, Poetry, and Protest\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePOUND, Ezra.\u003c\/strong\u003e Lament of the Frontier Guard. \u003ci\u003eNew York: Bread and Puppet Press.\u003c\/i\u003e November 1967.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Mimeographed white and black stapled wrappers; ff. [18], with black-and-white illustrations to each page; wrappers lightly toned, slight rusting to staples; near fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA bright copy of this scarce illustrated edition of Pound’s translation of Rihaku’s ‘Lament of the Frontier Guard’, the illustrations by the Bread and Puppet Press drawing the poem’s themes into the context of the Vietnam War.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bread and Puppet Press was run in conjunction with the theatre company of the same name, and was founded by Peter Schumann in 1963, on  New York’s Lower East Side. By the mid-1960s, the company had become increasingly involved in protesting the Vietnam War, and its press produced mimeographed pamphlets which combined simplistic imagery and text which often focused around the news as well as poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis pamphlet, published in November 1967, at the height of publicity around the Battle of Dak To (3–23 November), recontextualises Pound’s ‘Lament of the Frontier Guard’ which had first appeared in 1915 as part of his collection Cathay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOCLC finds seven copies, all of which in the US (Brown, Delaware, Emory, Morgan, Northwestern, UC Davis, Yale); no copies traced on Library Hub.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot in Gallup.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126181\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64400003367289,"sku":"2126181","price":650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126181.jpg?v=1787935810","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/pound-ezra-lament-of-the-frontier-guard","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}