Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Ezra Pound, Demi Moore, Picabo Street, Bowe Bergdahl, Dick Fosbury, Frank R. Gooding, Christin Cooper, Richard Feldman, Mariel Hemingway, Tim Ryan, Susan Corrock, Denne Bart Petitclerc, Thomas C. Stanford, Sarah Marie Johnson, Gretchen Fraser, Barbara Kent, Genevieve Cortese, Laverne Fator, Pete T. Cenarrusa, John Peavey, Anthony Lewis Vitale, Hailey Duke. Excerpt: Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 - 1 November 1972) was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry. He became known for his role in developing Imagism, which, in reaction to the Victorian and Georgian poets, favored tight language, unadorned imagery, and a strong correspondence between the verbal and musical qualities of the verse and the mood it expressed. His best-known works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos, which consumed his middle and late career, and was published between 1917 and 1969. Working in London in the early 20th century as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, Pound helped to discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Robert Frost, and Ernest Hemingway. Pound was responsible for the publication in 1915 of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and for the serialization from 1918 of Joyce's Ulysses. Hemingway wrote in 1925: "He defends when they are attacked, he gets them into magazines and out of jail. He loans them money. ... He writes articles about them. He introduces them to wealthy women. He gets publishers to take their books. He sits up all night with them when they claim to be dying ... he advances them hospital expenses and dissuades them from suicide." Outraged by the loss of life during the First World War, he lost faith in...