Dear Alexander Schmit z: Pardon me for jumping in here, but since I have
the Cheadle book on my desk, it is Ezra Pound's Confucian Translations, U
of Michigan Press, 1997. It is very impressive, since Mrs. Cheadle knows
Chinese well, and can discuss the often fuzzy meanings of the ideograms
lucidly.It is also very informative with regard to Pound's sources, and
should be a basic work for Pound people. However, there's not much in it
about the Cathay poems specifically.Incidentally, Mrs.Cheadle lives near
me in Seattle, we have had a talk,and I look forward to seeing her again.
                                        Jacob Korg
 
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Alexander Schmitz wrote:
 
> Jeff,
>
>   VERY interesting news. Cd you kindly give me ALL bibliographical data of the CHEADLE and the
> KERN titles you mentioned? The more exact the better for me to order them here in Germany.
>   Thanks!
>
> *************************
>
> Wayne,
>
>   you'll have seen Dan's correction of my spelling of the pensione. I came there on an incredibly
> hot day in September 1967, just one year after having graduated from hi school back home in
> West Berlin, and it was exactly as EP's German translatress Eva Hesse in Munich and EP's
> grandson on Brunnenburg had predicted: around noontime he indeed used to be at the pensione.
> And there they were, Olga talking with somebody on the phone, Ezra standing there with his
> cane, piercing blue eyes, listening to me VERY closely... well, and then they invited me to come
> over to the hidden nest in calle Querini for dinner, and thus I had the chance to send about sechs,
> seven hours with them. One of my most precious experiences, of course. I still wonder if I wd
> have had the courage to go right there if I'd been older than just 21 with all that "Sturm und
> Drang" in my head & heart...-
>   Schloss Brunnenburg, home of EP's daughter Mary de Rachewiltz, is close to Meran, a beautiful
> city on the valley of the Adige [Etsch] in the Italian Tirol. It belongs to Dorf Tirol, a small village
> looking down on Merano. I was there with Sizzo [i. e. Siegfried Walter, EP's grandson] several
> times, but that is long ago, too. But it's a dream. If you have read Mary's "Discretions" you wd
> have an idea of what is and what it was intended to be for her father on his return from
> Washington in '58.
>
>   Mary de Rachewiltz
>   Via Ezra Pound
>   I-39019 Tirolo de Merano
>   Italy
>
> Yep: Just ask what you want to know about Venice. I'll try to answer correctly. I guess you shd
> try to contact Massimo Bacigalupo in Italy for further help. I think he's on this list, too. Have you
> ever seen the beautiful book by Contino and Ivancich, "Ezra Pound in Italy. From the Pisan
> Cantos" [Rizzoli, New York 1978]. That might give you some impressions of EP's life in Venice.
> And of course Hugh Kenner has travelled ALL the places, Pisa included. I seem to remember that
> a good deal of that was put into his "Pound Era".
>
> Blessings,
>
> alex
>