Thanks very much to Derek and Carlo for their information. I did not know Kenner was such a humorous writer when he referred to EP's birth year. :-) Also I'd love to see the day when those moving vinyls are made into CDs. Cheers, Michael. > Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:15:50 PDT > From: derek hardy <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: EP in Spoleto in 1968? > > I have a vinyl recording - "The World's Great Poets - Ezra Pound Reads His > Cantos" (Vol II). The sleeve notes by Hugh Kenner are dated 1968 and read " > A voice from another age, from a very old man, born in Idaho at a time > (1885) when the lanes of London were scavenged by municipal goats. Marius > the Epicurean was published in that year. Browning and Ruskin were active. > Wagner was but two years dead, Jesse James but three. And at 82, in > Spoleto, 1967, borne by earthspin with the rest of us through a cosmic (sic) > adrift with artificial satellites, the survivor retraces his written > memories"...and so on... > > So it looks like he definitely read there in '67 at least. > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 17:40:25 -0400 > From: "R.Gancie/C.Parcelli" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: EP in Spoleto in 1968? > > I don't know if I'm repeating others remarks here, but I have a two > record boxed set called the Spoleto Festival which has a very old Pound > reading Canto XVI. It is very moving. Ginsberg also reads on the > recording. I'm sorry but I've been too busy to reply earlier or make an > effort to ferret out the recording and look up the date. Carlo Parcelli