Ezra Pound and the Spanish World: Clemson University Press: The Ezra Pound Center for Literature Book Series

Viorica Patea is Professor of American Literature at the University of Salamanca, where she teaches American and English literature. Her published books include Entre el mito y la realidad: Aproximacin a la obra potica de Sylvia Plath (1989), a study on Whitman, La apologa de Whitman a favor de la pica de la modernidad (1999) and T. S. Eliots The Waste Land (2005), forthcoming in a second edition with a new translation, extended notes, and a new introduction. She has edited various collections of essays such as Critical Essays on the Myth of the American Adam (2001) and, together with Paul Scott Derrick, Modernism Revisited: Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of Renewal in American Poetry (2007). Her edited collection of essays, Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective (2012) received the Javier Coy Research Award for the best edited book (2013). In addition, Patea is an accomplished translator: from Romanian into English (with Paul Derrick), several editions of
the poetry of Romanian poet Ana Blandiana, My Native Land A4 (2014) and Five Books (2021); from Romanian into Spanish, the poetry of Blandiana as well as the poetry of Patrizia de Rachewiltz; and from Romanian into Spanish, an annotated edition of El diario de la felicidad by Nicolae Steinhardt (2007).
John Gery is an American poet, critic, collaborative translator, and editor. He has published seven books of poetry, a critical work on the treatment of nuclear annihilation in American poetry, two co-edited volumes of literary criticism and two co-edited anthologies of contemporary poetry, as well as, a co-authored biography and guidebook on Ezra Pound's Venice.
Walter Baumann was born in Switzerland and studied at the Universities of Zurich and Aberdeen. His academic teaching career in German Studies started at Toronto University and continued at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. He published on J. W. Goethe, H. Broch, and M. Frisch.