Ezra Pound & the Spanish World

About the Editors

Viorica Patea is Professor of American Literature at the University of Salamanca, where she teaches American and English literature. Her published books include Entre el mito y la realidad: Aproximación a la obra poética de Sylvia Plath (1989), a study on Whitman, La apología de Whitman a favor de la épica de la modernidad (1999) and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (2005), forthcoming in a second edition with a new translation, extended notes, and a new introduction. She has edited various collections of essays such as Critical Essays on the Myth of the American Adam (2001) and, together with Paul Scott Derrick, Modernism Revisited: Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of Renewal in American Poetry (2007). Her edited collection of essays, Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective (2012) received the Javier Coy Research Award for the best edited book (2013). In addition, Patea is an accomplished translator: from Romanian into English (with Paul Derrick), several editions of the poetry of Romanian poet Ana Blandiana, My Native Land A4 (2014) and Five Books (2021); from Romanian into Spanish, the poetry of Blandiana as well as the poetry of Patrizia de Rachewiltz; and from Romanian into Spanish, an annotated edition of El diario de la felicidad by Nicolae Steinhardt (2007).

Poet-critic John Gery’s collections of poetry include The Enemies of Leisure, Davenport’s Version, A Gallery of Ghosts, Have at You Now! His criticism focuses on modernist and contemporary American poetry, including his book, Nuclear Annihilation and Contemporary American Poetry: Ways of Nothingness. He has also published a co-authored books on Pound’s Venice and the Armenian poet, Hmayeak Shems, as well as three co-edited critical collections on Pound: Ezra Pound, Ends and Beginnings: Essays and Poems (ed. with William Pratt, 2010); Imagism: Essays on Its Initiation, Impact and Influence (with Daniel Kempton and H. R. Stoneback, 2013); and Cross-Cultural Ezra Pound (with Walter Baumann and David McKnight, 2021), as well as two poetry anthologies. A Research Professor at University of New Orleans, he directs the Ezra Pound Center for Literature, Brunnenburg, Italy, and is Series Editor for the EPCL Book Series at Clemson University Press. Since 2005 Gery has served as Secretary of the Ezra Pound International Conference.

Walter Baumann started to study Ezra Pound in 1959 at Zurich University and Aberdeen University, Scotland. From 1964-1966 he was a lecturer in German at the University of Toronto. His book, The Rose in the Steel Dust: An Examination of the Cantos of Ezra Pound (1967) is considered a ground-breaking study of Pound. Under the title Roses from the Steel Dust, his collected essays on Pound appeared in 2000. Since 1976 he has been an organizer of international Ezra Pound conferences and has co-edited selected papers on Pound from conferences in 2011 (London), 2013 (Dublin) and 2015 (Brunnenburg, Italy). Baumann also serves as the keeper of photographic records of Pound Conferences. He retired from University of Ulster in 1996.