Alex, Just one small correction to your spelling: it's the pensione Cicí. I just checked it against my diary. Unfortunately, I don't seem to have the house number written down either. ==Dan At 09:09 AM 7/13/98 +0100, you wrote: >Hi, Tammaro, > > EP & Olga lived at the Calle Querini. Unfortunately I forget the number of the house, but you >cdn't miss it anyway. If you go there get a map of Venice and choose the Calle Querini close to La >Salute, the beautiful, white landmark church you wdn't miss either.. Just take a vaporetto to La >Salute, get off there, and ask the short way to the Calle Querini which, BTW, might lead you past >the Pensione Chi Chi where EP used to have his meals very often. The Chi Chi is just round the >corner. The Calle is a small and short street, and if I recall it right the house must be the 3rd or 4th >on the right. And then take the 5 to San Michele and see EP's grave with Guy Davenports design >of the letters on the small stone. > >................................................................ > >Lucas, > >Yip's "Cathay" was pioneering work and thus still is a must, comparable to Espeys "Mauberley" >and Sullivan's "Propertius". >Maybe you might want to look into these: > >1) L. S. Dembo, The Confucian Odes of EP. A Critical Appraisal. U of Cal. 1963 and/or Faber, >London 1963; >2) Wai-Lim Yip, Diffusion and Distances. Dialogues Between Chinese and Western Poetics. U of >Cal. 1993; >3) Zhaoming Qian, Orientalism and Modernism. The Legacy of China in Pound and Williams, and >4) John Driscoll, The China Cantos of EP, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Anglistica >Upsaliensia, Uppsala 1983; >5) John J. Nolde, Blossom From the East. The China Cantos of Ezra Pound. Nat. Poetry >Foundation, Orono, ME 1983; >6) John Solt, "The Hooking of Distant Antennae: Ez Po & Kit-Kat", and Tony Lopez, "Sequential >Meaning in EP's Cathay", both in Richard Taylor/Claus Melchior, Ezra Pound and Europe, >Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA [Rodopi] 1993; >7) Sanehide Kodama (Ed.), EP & Japan. Letters & Essays, Redding Ridge [Black Swan Books] >1987, and if you happen to read German, >8) Monika Motsch, EP und China. Heidelberg [Carl Winter Universitdtsverlag] 1976. > >Cheers, > >alex > Dan Pearlman Office: Department of English 102 Blackstone Blvd. #5 University of Rhode Island Providence, RI 02906 Kingston, RI 02881 Tel.: 401 453-3027 Tel.: 401 874-4659 email: [log in to unmask] Fax: 401 874-2580