In regards to whether Mr. Pound ever saw a Brakhage film:
A friend of mine (and a good friend of Stan's) told me that indeed Mr.
Pound did view one (if not more) of Stan's films.

"In someone's apartment.  During Stan's N.Y. days.  Pound watched to the
end.  His body language may have suggested that he liked it.  As it
happens, this was in one of Pound's phases when he didn't speak a word
for months on end, so there was no comment.  At least he didn't get up
and leave."

This is something that Stan himself is very proud of, and has raised
this story up among his friends on the occasion that Mr. Pound's name is
mentioned. I have heard Stan personally laud 'The Cantos", as he often
says he always wanted to be a poet, but thinking he did not have the
skills of one, chose filmmaking.

DC Vito



 -----Original Message-----
From:   Pierre Joris [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Monday, January 06, 2003 11:07 PM
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Subject:        Re: Pound saw Brakhage film?

On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 10:49  AM, Vito, Derrick wrote:

> And I'm not sure what you mean by Stan not making it to Europe much,
> but
> in France (just for an example) he has a similar celebrity (on a
> perhaps
> smaller scale) to Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick and Michael Snow. Of
> course, this may be recent celebrity, as I believe you allude to it
not
> being prominent during Mr. Pound's life.

I think it is somewhat more recent & still more "underground"- &
certainly nothing like that of Allen, Kubrick or Snow.
The Musée de Beaubourg did organize a retrospective of Brakhage films 4
years ago -- well done (Stan couldn't come, unhappily) & given his
connections with poetry I was asked to curate a poetry event for that
festival -- brought over Robert Creeley, Robert Kelly & Ken Irby
(Poundians indeed) who are all poets SB has close connections to. A
sequence of lovely events, well-attended readings & panels & all that,
but nothing like, say, the public response of a new Allen movie
opening. Pound didn't come up during those days, as far as I can
remember, at least not directly in any connection with SB.

Pierre
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