Glad you liked it, but glad I was saved the agony of seeing you giggling
like a schoolgirl.
     BTW Williams was elected to be poet laureate for awhile, but he
wouldn't or didn't serve. Anyone know why? Unfortunately as I understand it,
he seldom let any of his patients, he was a pediatrician in Paterson, N.J.,
know he was a "nationally" known poet because I guess he felt they would
then think of him as sort of a nut or overachiever. "Born in a half savage
country"? I bet everyone in Rapallo knew Pound was a poet. What would you
make of that?


Charles

 P.S.   I'll send you a picture of Pound and Williams I copied from the one
John Haines' had hanging on the wall of his cabin in Alaska.

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>From: Brennen Lukas <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Pound the poet
>Date: Sun, Feb 2, 2003, 5:58 PM
>

> Charles,
>
> Your analogy made me giggle like a schoolgirl.  It's funny, tho. I was
> reading an essay by Charles Tomlinson today and it turns out that WCW
> himself felt somewhat betrayed, or at least disappointed, that Eliot and
> Pound turned away from the possibilities of American-flavored poetry in
> favor of European influences. So perhaps I'm in better company than I first
> supposed.
>
> Onward,
> Brennen
>
>
>
>>
>>     A good way to read Pound in the bathroom is with your head stuck in
>>the
>>commode. Try it. I'm sure this will reinforce your viewpoint.
>>     BTW when did you get married? Your wife isn't the late Kate Cone is
>>she?
>>
>>     You see, Brennen, the internet is not like academia or any institution
>>in which there is the process of careful screening to get in. It's more
>>like an old frontier saloon in the wild west.
>
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