Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound is a
marble bust of the American poet
Ezra Pound, stylized in an angular and simplified way. Pound's hair is compact and reminiscent of a
turban. His eyes are dark, thin slots and his moustache and mouth are one piece. His nose looks like a noseguard from a medieval helmet but is also asymmetric and angled out at the top of the left side. Viewed from the back, the sculpture looks like a penis with a
scrotum and a large
glans. Craig Raine of
The Guardian calls it a great work that avoids being bland through the use of asymmetry. He says photographs do not do it justice and likens it to "something found on
Easter Island". ==References==