Ezra Pound's Lustra is a restless modernist collection where classical allusion, urban sharpness, and lyrical compression collide. From the opening poems, the speaker probes desire, selfhood, and the making of art with irony and precision, balancing refined sensibility against a vulgar, impatient world. Across intimate addresses, satirical portraits, and brief epigrammatic flashes, the poems mock pretension, celebrate beauty, and linger on vanity, aging, and disappointment. The book's middle and later movements broaden into a cosmopolitan mosaic of influences: Provençal echoes, medieval and classical voices, and stark imagist snapshots of streets, restaurants, war, memory, and fleeting desire. Pound turns repeatedly to artists, outsiders, lovers, and social types, tracing artistic lineage, the burden of influence, and the fragile survival of ideal beauty. Satire and elegy continually intertwine, while the closing poems become more self-aware, treating poetry as both performance and burden. Throughout, Lustra delights in wit, erudition, and emotional tension, offering a vivid portrait of a mind alert to the comedy, transience, and hard-won radiance of modern life. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.