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?????? <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Subjects hinder talk." --Emily Dickinson Aldon Lynn Nielsen George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature Department of English The Pennsylvania State University 116 Burrowes University Park, PA 16802-6200 (814) 865-0091