In the spirit of getting something other that "hey, I didn't get the message that said he didn't get the message about the message she didn't get" in my mailbox today... Does anybody have any knowledge of Pound's historical interaction with the early 20th century (1905-1930) Russian avant garde? It seems as if one might compare some of Pound's lyric poetry in the personnae to the experiments of the neoprimitivists (e.g./ linguistic experiments, "folk" and pseudo-academic etymologies in his treatment of Chinese characters, his word coining (kenning) in his interactions with Old English texts (The Seafarer, e.g.).) And the Cantos themselves seem to share a lot of their ideology with neoprimitivist/futurist writers such as V. Khlebnikov. While the question of their aesthetic relationships is probably a cloudy one, I wonder if there's anything lying around the Pound archives to suggest that he read/met with/ corresponded with some of the big folk in Russia at the time. -- Simon DeDeo http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~sdedeo