To pound list members: I'm very sorry, but I mistakenly sent a personal
letter to the web. Please delete this letter and the one it's threaded
to (subject: saluti).

WP

Wayne Pounds wrote:
>
> Dear ol' buddy Pierre
>
> I am tickled to hear from you, even if i can't spell copyrite write.
> Thanks for the info, but I mean apart from that. In fatto I been
> thinking about you recently as I've been going thru the second volume of
> your Millennium opus. I love those two volumes, and I have utmost
> respect for the work you and your partner have done, all the more
> because it accords with my own humble view of the poetry wangle.
>
> Yaas, looks like copyright law has surrendered to corporate interest.
> They've pushed it back to 90 years to protect Walt Disney and the gang.
>
> I thought you were in California, but that's Rothenberg, huh. You in
> Albany. How do they treat you there? My old friend Don Byrd is there,
> too, I think, unless he's flown the coop. You must know him, I reckon.
>
> So howz life in the Snakes with a serial killer in the captain's tower?
> Is Dub really dyslexic or just trying to get our sympathy?
>
> I would like to tell you about my idea for novelizing Pound. I dont
> wanna tell the ep list, somebody might steal it. I think you'd
> appreciate the rationale, but first let me send this off and see if you
> up for this sort of epistolization.
>
> Wayne
>
> ps Did I ever ask you how you got out of Algeria. You stayed thru the
> pay strike till payday, isn't that right, didn't disappear on no
> midnight train. -?
>
> Pierre Joris wrote:
> >
> > >Who holds the copyright to ep's work? I.e., who does one write to for
> > >permission?
> >
> > Wayne,
> >
> > In the US you need to write to New Directions. They are very decent
> > (financially speaking)in granting permissions. If your book has distribution
> > in the UK, you'll also need to contact Faber & Faber. They are not so
> > decent, come to think of it they are blood-suckers, out for the filthy
> > lucre. You'll need to argue them down, which isn't easy. (My experience
> > dates from the middle nineties when I co-edited the POEMS FOR THE MILLENNIUM
> > anthologies -- so it doesn't correspond exactly to your situation, but
> > should be close enough )
> >
> > Pierre
> >
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