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I've just finished reading the correspondence of Pound, Hughes and others
in EZRA POUND AND AFRICAN AMERICAN MODERNISM and I'm wondering if anybody
knows of any other references Pound may have made to Melvin Tolson's
poetry.  The mentions in this correspondence are frustratingly
intriguing.  For the most part, they are responses to Tate's bizarre
preface to Tolson's LIBRETTO FOR THE REPOUBLIC OF LIBERIA -- but where
Pound complains of Tate's praise for Tolson as one who had risen to the
level of imitating Hart Crane when there was African oral tradition to
start from, Tolson's LIBRETTO itself, like the HARLEM GALLERY that comes
after it, is filled with allusions to just that oral tradition -- and
Tolson often evinced interest in Frobenius --

so, Pound must have read at least the LIBRETTO -- but does he say anything
about it anywhere??????

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Aldon Lynn Nielsen
George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature
Department of English
The Pennsylvania State University
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