I like to thank all of you who provided me with the texts of the two poems in English. As there was a lot of interest concerning the Czech version, I append an editorials by Petr Mikeą from the book I have: CHTĚL JSEM NAPSAT RÁJ (VÝBOR Z DÍLA). [Edited and selected by Petr Mikeą; translated by Kamil Bednár, Jitka Herynková, and Petr Mikeą. Introduction by Josef Jařab.] Olomouc, Votobia, 1993. ISBN 80-85619-61-X "Pound has not been lucky in Czechoslovakia - traslations of his works and mostly short reports about the author are spread around in magazines and actually unavailable to a non-expert. In the late sixties Kamil Bednář prepared a selection of Pound¶ work for the Prague publishing house Odeon, but the book has not been published (probably due to the Russian occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the following orientation of the Czechoslovak official culture ideology - M.Barda). Some of Bednář¶ translations are integrated in the current book. Jan Zábrana (an excellent translator of English and American authors into Czech - M.Barda) worked for long years on the translations of Pound¶ work. His translations are collected in the anthology "Horoskop orloje, čtrnáct amerických básníků", Prague, Odeon 1987, pages 53-109. The current book originated in late eighties. As Odeon, the originally proposed publishing house, cancelled the planned edition, a young publishing house Votobia from Olomouc took up this task." If someone is interested in Pound in Czech even more, contact Richard Caddel in this conference: Richard Caddel Durham University Library, Stockton Rd., Durham DH1 3LY, UK E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: +44 (0)191 374 3044 Fax: +44 (0)191 374 7481 WWW: http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dul0ric who obviously keep contacts directly to Petr Mikeą, the Czech editor of the book (I hope Richard do not mind giving this information. His mail to me was very interesting and nice!). For me this book was the first meeting with Pound¶ poetry, before I knew only his name. In the book are poems, essays and the interview with Donal Hall (1960). Specially Pound¶ attitude to fascism could be a problem for his wide acceptance in my place (Central Europe). The book itself is cheap (ca 4US$), but I have not seen it anywhere for months. If I should see it somewhere, I would buy some copies for those who may be interested. Thanks and regards Michal