In a different vein, last night I got some fan mail that makes allusion
to
Pound so I would like to share it with the list. It involves my lonely
campaign against the way American culture has come to help dominate the
current Neo=Georgian style of poetry that our major and small presses so
love and admire.

I received this post:



Dear Mr.Parcelli,
   Read your poem in terza limbo and your essay on Moyer's Movement.
Incidently, the "s" was added to the name by those of our family who
moved
west because they were wanted in the East and Midwest for horse
thievery.
They have progressed greatly.  Willam Bartley III is correct in his
observation that "sometimes the Pennsylvania Dutchman is right", but not
in
this schmeercase.
   For your entertainment - a parody - I owe you one for explaining to
me
why I have been so bored at Border's poetry readings lately, and why
I've
stopped going to them.



CANTICO DEL SOLUS IPSE

The thought of what America would like
 If the Poets had a wide strangulation
              Troubles my sleep,
The thought of what America,
   The thought of what America,
   The thought of what America would be like
      If the Poets had a wide strangulation
                 Troubles my sleep.
     Nunc dimwheaties, now lettest thou thy savant,

       Now lettest thou thy savant
                                     Depart in pieces.
       The thought of what America would be like,
    Etc.

                                   Charlie Moyer


Depart in pieces may refer to Orpheus the quintiessential poet.
Certainly Charlie is referring to Pound's self-imposed exile here.
Also see de Tocqueville, Democracy in America: "I know of no country in
which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of
discussion as in America. "