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 > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > Pierre Joris "Let me tell you about Florida politicians. I make them out of > > 6 Madison Place whole cloth, just like a tailor makes a suit. I get their > > name in the > > Albany NY 12202 newspaper.I get them some publicity and get them on the > > ballot. > > Tel: (518) 426-0433 Then after the election, we count the votes. And if > > they don’t turn > > Fax: (518) 426-3722 out right we recount them. And recount them again. Until > > they do.” > > Email: joris@ albany.edu - Edward G. Robinson in Key Largo. > > Url: <http://www.albany.edu/~joris> > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > _