Ezra Pound and Spatial Poetics.

The article focuses on Ezra Pound’s development of a spatial poetics that transforms temporal experience into complex, relational moments within his epic poem, the Cantos. Drawing on Ernest Fenollosa’s theory of the ideogram and Pound’s own "method of Luminous Detail," Pound emphasizes the superposition of historical and cultural meanings in the textual present, using spatial patterns to slow linear narrative and evoke multi-layered awareness. Pound’s poetics integrates diverse global traditions, envisioning a cultural renaissance that transcends Eurocentric historicism through translation, adaptation, and a dynamic interplay of force and form. His approach contrasts with monolinear logic by privileging spatiality and simultaneity, reflecting a tension between multiplicity and unity, historicist contingency and metaphysical order, especially evident in the Cantos’ structure and ideological complexities.