Ezra Pound wrote that a poet must be able to give us his world. For some sixty years (1908-1968) he did not cease to create his poetic world, sending us reports of experiences and discoveries in the capitals of the 20th century and in Italy in ferment between the two wars, a place that seemed to him both ancient and very new, in which to work with his thousand curiosities and to create a poem that was to remain his testimony. Other poetic dispatches came from the poet in a cage in Pisa and in an asylum in Washington, before his serene departure from Liguria and Venice. Massimo Bacigalupo, who has known and studied Pound since he was a boy, guides us into this alternative and bizarre universe, from which one enjoys a very special view of the literature and history of the last century, and which still today never ceases to amaze and enrich those who venture into it. Above all, it investigates the Cantos, that new journey through Italy and personal myth that is one of the most unsettling, intriguing and at times touching works of the 20th century. But there is also the personal story of Pound, of his masters and sodalists Yeats, Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Eliot, of his Italian friends Marinetti, Pea, Scheiwiller, and of his loves as a young man and an old man, always aimed at the passion of storytelling. Life of a man who had the gift of writing memorable verse and creating a myth for himself.