Alex: Jacob Korg has already cited the information on Mary Cheadle's Confucius book, which I primarily noticed from its mention in Books Received section of Paideuma 26.2/3. Robert Kern, Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem, Cambridge UP, 1996. Jeff ---------- > From: Alexander Schmitz <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Venice, Yip > Date: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 4:10 PM > > Jeff, > > VERY interesting news. Cd you kindly give me ALL bibliographical data of the CHEADLE and the > KERN titles you mentioned? The more exact the better for me to order them here in Germany. > Thanks! > > ************************* > > Wayne, > > you'll have seen Dan's correction of my spelling of the pensione. I came there on an incredibly > hot day in September 1967, just one year after having graduated from hi school back home in > West Berlin, and it was exactly as EP's German translatress Eva Hesse in Munich and EP's > grandson on Brunnenburg had predicted: around noontime he indeed used to be at the pensione. > And there they were, Olga talking with somebody on the phone, Ezra standing there with his > cane, piercing blue eyes, listening to me VERY closely... well, and then they invited me to come > over to the hidden nest in calle Querini for dinner, and thus I had the chance to send about sechs, > seven hours with them. One of my most precious experiences, of course. I still wonder if I wd > have had the courage to go right there if I'd been older than just 21 with all that "Sturm und > Drang" in my head & heart...- > Schloss Brunnenburg, home of EP's daughter Mary de Rachewiltz, is close to Meran, a beautiful > city on the valley of the Adige [Etsch] in the Italian Tirol. It belongs to Dorf Tirol, a small village > looking down on Merano. I was there with Sizzo [i. e. Siegfried Walter, EP's grandson] several > times, but that is long ago, too. But it's a dream. If you have read Mary's "Discretions" you wd > have an idea of what is and what it was intended to be for her father on his return from > Washington in '58. > > Mary de Rachewiltz > Via Ezra Pound > I-39019 Tirolo de Merano > Italy > > Yep: Just ask what you want to know about Venice. I'll try to answer correctly. I guess you shd > try to contact Massimo Bacigalupo in Italy for further help. I think he's on this list, too. Have you > ever seen the beautiful book by Contino and Ivancich, "Ezra Pound in Italy. From the Pisan > Cantos" [Rizzoli, New York 1978]. That might give you some impressions of EP's life in Venice. > And of course Hugh Kenner has travelled ALL the places, Pisa included. I seem to remember that > a good deal of that was put into his "Pound Era". > > Blessings, > > alex