The controversial American poet Ezra Pound is the focus of this standard biographical documentary by Lawrence Pitkethly. Pound's life is passed in review, from his childhood in the U.S. to his adult career in Europe where he becomes friends with other well-known writers such as James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, and T.S. Eliot. One of the controversies about him raged around his defense of Italian fascists and his anti-American stance in World War II, a position that got him imprisoned after the war. Interviews with his acquaintances and scholars who have researched his poetry and life illuminate the documentary, but not as hauntingly as the poetry itself, in some instances recited by Pound in his later years. Historical footage of the poet also adds to the vision of his life.