Walter Baumann, a native of Switzerland, is a retired Senior Lecturer of the University of Ulster, where he taught German literature and language. He obtained his Dr. phil. degree from the University of Zurich. His dissertation was published by Francke Verlag in Bern in 1967 and the University of Miami Press 1970 entitled The Rose in the Steel Dust: An Examination of the Cantos of Ezra Pound. He has been a student of Ezra Pound for 60 years. From 1976 to the present he has attended and helped to organize all but two Pound conferences. His collected Pound essays were published by the National Poetry Foundation in Orono, Maine, in 2000 under the title Roses from the Steel Dust. With William Pratt he edited Ezra Pound and London: New Perspectives (AMS Press, New York, 2015) and Ezra Pound and Modernism: The Irish Factor (forthcoming from EER). ​ ​Caterina Ricciardi is professor of American Literature at the University Roma Tre. She has extensively written on American Modernism (Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Djuna Barnes, Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, W.C. Williams). She is the author of books on Ezra Pound: EIKONEΣ. Ezra Pound e il Rinascimento (1991), Ezra Pound. Ghiande di Luce (2006), and Ezra Pound and Roma: Roma/Amor (2009). She contributed to Ezra Pound in Context (2010), edited by Ira B. Nadel, and co-edited with Willian Pratt Roma/Amor. Ezra Pound, Rome, and Love (2013). A book on T. S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men is forthcoming.