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This program is supported in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council, a state-based program of the National Endowment of the Humanities.

Tuesday, July 1

5:00-8:00 p.m. Registration. Promenade, Sun Valley Inn.
8:00-10:00 p.m. Travelers’ Rest and Happy Hour. Boiler Room, Sun Valley Village.

Wednesday, July 2

8:00-9:00 a.m. Registration. Promenade, Sun Valley Inn.
9:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Book Table. Edelweiss Room, Sun Valley Inn.
9:00-10:30 a.m. Opening Session. Continental Room, Sun Valley Inn.
Presiding: Hugh Witemeyer, Program Co-ordinator.
Memorial Minute: Akiko Miyake and William Cookson.
Welcome: Jonathan Lawson, Academic Vice-President, Idaho State University.
Mary de Rachewiltz, on behalf of the Ezra Pound Association.
Opening Address: Emily Mitchell Wallace (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania): “Pioneers and Natural Patriots: Pound and Hemingway and the Big Wood River Valley of Idaho.”

10:30-11:15 a.m. Coffee Break and Late Registration.
11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Session. Camas Room, Sun Valley Inn.
“ Early Days: The Pounds in Idaho, Wisconsin, and Spain.” Chair: Mary de Rachewiltz.
Tim Redman (University of Texas, Dallas): “Hailey, Idaho: Why the Pound Family Came, and Why They Left.”
Alec Marsh (Muhlenberg College): “A Wisconsin Boyhood: Homer Pound’s Memoirs and The Cantos.”
Marianna Cherchi (Libera Università de lingue e comunicazione IULM, Milano/Feltre): “?Este Señor Americano’: Ezra Pound in Madrid, 1906.”

Session. Lupine Room, Sun Valley Inn.
“ Adams and Jefferson in The Cantos.” Chair: Leon Surette.
Anderson Araujo (University of Western Ontario): “The Artifex and Efficient Cause: Pound’s Jeffersonian Epicureanism.”
Michele Biondi (Moraitis School, Athens): “Up and Adams: Pound’s persona americana as Metaphor for Virtù.”
David Ten Eyck (Oxford University): “Representing the American Republic: Ezra Pound’s Adams and Coke Cantos.”

12:45-2:00 p.m. Lunch.
2:00-3:30 p.m. Session. Camas Room, Sun Valley Inn.
“ Images and Texts.” Chair: Burton Hatlen.
Ira Nadel (University of British Columbia): “Pound in Focus: Images of Ezra.”
Iris Ralph (University of Texas, Austin): “Whistler and Pound: A Reunion.”
Massimo Bacigalupo (University of Genoa): “America and the Posthumous Cantos.”

Session. Lupine Room, Sun Valley Inn.
“Overviews of The Cantos.” Chair: Ellen Keck Stauder.
Piero Sanavio (Rome, Italy): “Politics of the Imagination.”
Walter Baumann (University of Ulster): “‘Something Decent in the Universe’: Decency and Honesty in Pound’s Cantos.”
Jarret Lofstead (New Orleans, Louisiana): “Self-Similarity as a Means of Introducing and Discussing The Cantos.”

3:30-4:15 p.m. Coffee Break
4:15-5:45 p.m. Session. Camas Room, Sun Valley Inn.
“ American Aspects of the Pisan Cantos.” Chair: Peter Makin.
William Pratt (Miami University, Ohio): “Pound’s Poetic Self-Portraits.”
Ron Bush (Oxford University): “The Pisan Cantos and the Political Tradition of American Pastoral.”
Mark Byron (University of Washington): “The Idea of America in the Pisan Cantos.”

Session. Lupine Room, Sun Valley Inn.
“ Pound in the Thirties and Forties.” Chair: Evelyn Haller.
Barry Ahearn (Tulane University): “The Odd Couple: Ezra Pound and Otto Kahn”
Roxana Preda (Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Berlin): “Ezra Pound’s Economic Correspondence, 1933-1940.”
Caterina Ricciardi (Università di Rome Tre): “Ezra Pound, Ludwig Lewisohn, and Elio Vittorini’s Americana.”

6:00-8:00 p.m. Social Reception. Sun Room, Sun Valley Lodge.
Please wear your conference badge and bring the beverage tickets from your registration packet.

8:15 p.m. Poetry Reading. Continental Room, Sun Valley Inn. Open to the public.
Introduction: Ted Dyer (Ezra Pound Association).
Reading: Robert Creeley (University of Buffalo).
This is a ticketed event. Please wear your badge and bring the correct ticket from your registration packet.

Thursday, July 3

9:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Book Table. Edelweiss Room, Sun Valley Inn.
9:00-10:30 a.m. Session. Camas Room, Sun Valley Inn.
“Pound, Cavalcanti, and Dante.” Chair: Tim Redman.
Catherine Paul (Clemson University): “Pound’s Guido Cavalcanti Rime and Italian Cultural Nationalism of 1932.”
Ellen Keck Stauder (Reed College): “The Modernity of Pound’s Pre-Raphaelite Rhythmic Practices.”
Reed Way Dasenbrock (University of New Mexico): “From Lyric to Epic and Back Again: Influences of Dante in Pound’s Late Cantos.”

Session: Lupine Room, Sun Valley Inn.
” Pound from Other Angles.” Chair: Alec Marsh.
Evelyn Haller (Doane College): “The Centaur Leaping: Pound and Dance.”
John Gery (University of New Orleans): “Some ‘Fabrefactions’ of Pound’s Venice in A Draft of Thirty Cantos.”
Jon Elek (University of London): “Pound’s Baser Passions: Humor and the Making of a Modern Poet.”

10:30-11:15 a.m. Coffee Break.
11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Session. Continental Room, Sun Valley Inn.
Special Presentation. Chair: William Pratt.
Homer Somers (Tinmouth, Vermont): “Ezra Pound in the DTC: A Personal Memoir.”
Burton Hatlen (University of Maine, Orono): “Pound’s Cantos and the American Long Poem in the 1920s.”

12:45-2:00 p.m. Lunch
1:15-1:45 p.m. Video Presentation. Lupine Room, Sun Valley Inn.
Cathay: Poems by Ezra Pound and The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance by Bernard Dew.

2:00-3:30 p.m. Session. Camas Room, Sun Valley Inn.
“ Poetry, Politics, and Propaganda.” Chair: Ron Bush.
Peter Makin (Kansai University): “An American Confucian in 1945.”
Scott Eastham (Massey University): “Pound and Propaganda: Identity and Difference for an American Abroad.”
Sean Francis (Gustavus Adolphus College): “‘Now for a large-mouthed product’: Ezra Pound and the Poetics of Promotion.”

Session. Lupine Room, Sun Valley Inn.
“ Pound and Women Writers.” Chair: Yoshiko Kita.
Patricia Cockram (Lehman College, City University of New York): “Idiosyncrasy and Technique: Ezra Pound and Marianne Moore.”
Mary de Rachewiltz (Brunnenburg, Italy): “‘Athene cd/ have done with more sex appeal.’”

3:30-4:15 p.m. Coffee Break
4:15-5:45 p.m. Session: Camas Room, Sun Valley Inn.
“ Pound in Washington.” Chair: Walter Baumann.
Hsiu-Ling Lin (National Taiwan Normal University): “‘I Consider Myself 100 Percent American and Patriot’: Reconsidering Ezra Pound’s Treason Charge in the Light of American Constitutional Law.”
Leon Surette (University of Western Ontario): “Pound and the Cold War: The View from St. Elizabeths.”
Ronald Bayes (St. Andrews Presbyterian College): “The ‘Mystery’ Senator and E. P.’s Release.”

Session: Lupine Room, Sun Valley Inn.
“ Criticism in New Composition.” Chair: Ira Nadel.
Bernard Dew (Toronto, Canada): “Cathay: Poems by Ezra Pound and The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance” (films).
Jennifer Wilson (Hailey, Idaho): “Ezra Pound: American” (playscript).

8:15 p.m. Poetry Reading. Continental Room, Sun Valley Inn. Open to the Public.
Introduction: Marsha Bellevance (Ezra Pound Association).
Reading: Lawrence Ferlinghetti (City Lights Books, San Francisco).
This is a ticketed event. Please wear your badge and bring the correct ticket from your registration packet.

Friday, July 4
HAILEY DAY

8:45 a.m. Assemble at Resort bus stop.
9:00 a.m. Bus departs for Hemingway sites in Ketchum.
11:00 a.m. Fourth of July Parade, Hailey.
1:00-3:00 p.m. Ice-cream Social at Ezra Pound House. Walking tours of Emmanuel Episcopal Church and Blaine County Museum.
3:00-5:00 p.m. “The Future of the Ezra Pound House.” A presentation by the Ezra Pound Association.
6:30 p.m. Depart for Rodeo.
7:00 p.m. Rodeo and Fourth of July fireworks display.
c. 11:00 p.m. Return to Sun Valley.

Saturday, July 5

9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Book Table. Edelweiss Room, Sun Valley Inn.
9:00-10:30 a.m. Session. Sage Room, Sun Valley Lodge.
“ The Pound Tradition in American Poetry.” Chair: Barry Ahearn.
Eric White (Cambridge University): “The Other’s Vortex: William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and ‘the Trammels of Literature’ in American Modernism, 1913-1921.”
Christopher MacGowan (College of William and Mary): “Denise Levertov on Beginning a Poem with ‘And.’”
Michael Faherty (De Montfort University): “Ezra Pound, Paul Blackburn, and the Troubadours of the Lower East Side.”

Session. Lupine Room, Sun Valley Inn.
“ Pound’s Poetics: Philosophical and Psychological Approaches.” Chair: Patricia Cockram.
Richard Seddon (McIntosh, New Mexico): “Metamorphosis, Tradition, and Sculpture as Image: Image as Nous.”
Yoshiko Kita (Japan Women’s University): “Pound’s Ideogram and Its American Philosophical Background.”
Scott Preston (Missoula, Montana): “‘All Shapes Become Symbolical’: Ezra Pound as Manic-Depressive Visionary.”

10:30-11:15 a.m. Coffee Break.
11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Panel Discussion. Continental Room, Sun Valley Inn. Open to the public.
“Ezra Pound and American Identity.”
Moderator: Hugh Witemeyer (University of New Mexico).
Panelists: Robert Creeley (University of Buffalo).
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (City Lights Books, San Francisco).
Hugh Kenner (University of Georgia).
This is a ticketed event. Please wear your badge and bring the correct ticket from your registration packet.

12:45-2:00 p.m. Lunch.
2:00-3:30 p.m. Keynote Address. Lodge Dining Room, Sun Valley Lodge. Open to the public.
“A Packet for Ezra Pound.”
Introduction: John Kijinski (Idaho State University).
Speaker: Denis Donoghue (New York University).
This is a ticketed event. Please wear your badge and bring the correct ticket from your registration packet.

3:30-4:15 p.m. Coffee Break.
4:15-5:30 p.m. Business Meeting. Sage Room, Sun Valley Lodge.
Presiding: William Pratt.

6:30-10:00 p.m. Banquet. Opera House Lawn.
Please wear your conference badge.

c. 8:45 p.m. Ice Show. Main Rink, Sun Valley Lodge.

Sunday, July 6

8:45 a.m. Assemble at Resort bus stop.
9:00 a.m. Excursion to top of Bald Mountain via chair lift (tickets @ $15).
11:30 a.m.-12:00 Lunch in cafeteria atop Bald Mountain.
2:00 p.m. Return to Resort.