Dear Christopher
 
It's an interesting story. I very much enjoyed and instructed.
Thank you.
By the way, not Dr.Nogami but Dear Nogami. I'm Mr.
 
Hideo Nogami
 
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> From: Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Booth, Christopher
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2000 1:14 AM
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> Subject: Re: photo of EP's place
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>
> Dr. Nogami:
>
> Prof. Saga's Web site has many haiku-related links, and I was reminded of
> the following haiku-Pound anecdote:
>
> Ezra Pound was walking with Marcella Spann in Italy after his return there
> from St. Elizabeth's.
>
> Marcella noted one of those small quick lizards that are so
> common in Italy
> on a wall. She saw the long, jointed, splayed toes of the lizard before it
> darted away as they approached, and exclaimed to EP "That
> lizard's feet are
> like snowflakes."
>
> EP told her that what she had said was a haiku.
>
> The gist and pith of EP's comment was that it was the brevity and
> intensity
> of the imagery that makes a haiku a haiku, not the _form_--17 syllables, 3
> lines, usually of 5, 7, 5 syllables, respectively, etc.
>
> EP adopted the line for Canto CXIV, Drafts & Fragments [p. 813 in my handy
> ND paperback edition of the _Cantos_, 10th-13th lines down].
>
> Chris Booth
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Hideo Nogami
> > Reply To:     Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
> > Sent:         Friday, January 7, 2000 9:34 AM
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> > Subject:      photo of EP's place
> >
> > I met a beautiful photograph of the place where Pound
> > sleeps in Venice. Taken last year by Prof.Saga and posted
> > at the site bellow.
> >
> > http://www.nime.ac.jp/cgi-bin/mu/saga/viewguest.cgi
> >
> >   Hideo Nogami
> >   studying Ezra Pound nonprofessionally in Japan
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> >
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