Editing Ezra Pound (section)

===''A Lume Spento''===
Pound arrived in [[Gibraltar]] on 23 March 1908, where he earned $15 a day working as a guide for an American family there and in Spain.<ref>Carpenter (1988), 88; Moody (2007), 62</ref> After stops in Seville, Granada, and Genoa, by the end of April he was in [[Venice]], living over a bakery near the San Vio bridge.<ref>Carpenter (1988), 89; Moody (2007), 63; for the bakery, Tytell (1987), 36</ref> In the summer he decided to self-publish his first collection of 44 poems in the 72-page ''[[A Lume Spento]]'' ("With Tapers Quenched"), 150 copies of which were printed in July 1908.<ref>Witemeyer (2005a), 185; Moody (2007), 66</ref> The title is from the third canto of [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]'s ''[[Purgatorio]]'', alluding to the death of [[Manfred, King of Sicily]]. Pound dedicated the book to the Philadelphia artist [[William Brooke Smith]], a friend from university who had recently died of [[tuberculosis]].<ref>Witemeyer (2005a), 185; Wilhelm (1990), xiii, 299</ref>

In "Canto LXXVI" of ''[[The Pisan Cantos]]'', he records that he considered throwing the proofs into the [[Grand Canal (Venice)|Grand Canal]], abandoning the book and poetry altogether: "by the soap-smooth stone posts where San Vio / meets with il Canal Grande / between Salviati and the house that was of Don Carlos / shd/I chuck the lot into the tide-water? / [[Galley proof|le bozze]] "A Lume Spento"/ / and by the column of Todero / shd/I shift to the other side / or wait 24 hours".<ref>Pound (1947); Pound (1996), 480; Pound (2003b), 38, lines 259–263; Terrell (1993), 398</ref>