Primavera 1928

Abstract

This chapter begins by examining the periodical culture of the Rapallo poets: Ezra Pound’s magazine The Exile and the literary supplement to Il Mare. It considers the machismo that Pound cultivated in these magazines and how his ideas about masculinity relate to the masculine public sphere encouraged by the fascist state. It looks closely at Bunting’s contributions to Il Mare’s literary supplement. The chapter concludes by addressing the anthologies that Pound produced and the collaboration of Bunting and Zukofsky on the post-Rapallo Workers Anthology, considering the pedagogical aims of these projects and their political implications.