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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