No question that they met in Spoleto!  I spent time with Bucky
around 78 or 79, when I invited him out to the U. of Idaho
to give the annual Ezra Pound lecture.  He told me beforehand
how incredibly elated he was to have Pound sit at his feet, for
about a whole week, I think.  I asked Fuller to weave his Pound/
Spoleto experience into his Pound lecture (an off-the-cuff
performance, mainly on his own well-known hobbyhorses, that lasted
about an hour and 45 minutes!), and he did so, very affectingly.
The U. of I. library then published the lecture.  The distribution
was limited.  It must appear in a biblio of Bucky's works
somewhere.  All I know is that making Pound's acquaintance was
an extraordinarily important experience for Bucky, and that's
why he agreed to come out to Idaho--for about half his regular
talk fee.
 
==Dan P
 
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