I would like to add that I was a reader for the Cheadle manuscript
for Michigan, and I recommend it highly.
 
                                                Tim Redman
 
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998 10:44:35 -0700 Jacob Korg <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
 
> 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
> >
 
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