The Chinese Character as a Medium for Poetry by Ernest Fenollosa (Ed. Ezra Pound)

City Lights Books 
1960 
Softcover 
45 Pages 
12.5 x 18cm 

Condition: Fair 

Fenollosa’s seminal essay, rescued and edited by Ezra Pound, argued that Chinese ideograms offer a more direct, imagistic connection between word and meaning. This idea transformed Western poetry in the 20th century, influencing modernists and language theorists alike.