Responding to the message of         Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:10:00 +0100
from Alexander Schmitz <[log in to unmask]>:
>
 
 
Cheadle's book is published by University of Michigan Press, March, 1997.
 
> 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
>