ABSTRACT
It is to be feared that not many people in America will have the courage or even the curiosity to open Mr, Pound's Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir after a glance at the cover. On this cover is reproduced the photograph of a young sculptor with long hair and an unpleasant leer, in front of whom is a work entitled 'Bird Swallowing a Fish', executed in what is roughly (often very roughly) called the Cubist style. There is no use in attempting to recommend this volume by concealing the fact that it is written by an extremely modern poet about an extremely modern sculptor.
