Following is the date of the Washington Post article. It can be found at the archive section of wshingtonpost.com web site, but it does cost a few dollars to retrieve. I'm sure it could also be found in the microfilm versions of The Washington Post which are available at most major libraries. Fighting Words; Ezra Pound Was a Great Poet. Ted Pierce Thinks He Was an ... The Washington Post, 05/03/1997, 2679 words. Pound. Ole Ez. In the fall of 1921, in Paris, he took a long, complex poem about postwar disillusionment by a sickly London bank clerk named Eliot, ripped and tore away at it, cut it from about 800 ... Robert Kibler wrote: > > In that Washington Post intgerview of a couple years ago, Pierce--who had no sympathy for the likes of Pound--mentioned that he was writing a play concerning his arrest or detention of pound. Check the Post archives for the article. The guy lives in Virginia, I think, near DC. He is old, and in ill health, so catch him fast, I think, if you want to get ahold of him. > > "This world is but a single dewdrop, set > trembling upon a stem ; and yet . . . and yet . . ." > from "The Autumn Cricket," > 17th cent. Japanese Noh play > > Robert E. Kibler, Ph.D. > Department of Communication Arts > Valley City State University > Valley City, North Dakota > [log in to unmask] > > >>> Timothy P Redman <[log in to unmask]> 03/14 9:47 AM >>> > Ted Pierce was interviewed for the NPR segment on Pound's arrest some > years back -- May of 1995, I believe. He has also been featured in a > story in the Washington Post of a couple years back. I was > interviewed both for the NPR spot and for the Post story. > > I know nothing of any screenplay. > > Cheers, > > Tim Redman > > On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:55:41 -0500 Patricia Cockram > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > Can anyone tell me anything about Ted Pierce, who apparently claims to have > > arrested Pound in Genoa while he was "fleeing" in a jeep? According to the > > _Washington Post_, he has apparently written a screenplay for a film to be > > titled something like "Ezra Pound: Unpunished Traitor." (I don't have the > > Washington Post date -- I'm quoting from an article about it in an Italian > > newspaper). > > > > Thanks, > > Patricia > > Tim Redman > School of Arts and Humanities, JO 31 > University of Texas at Dallas > P.O. Box 830688 > Richardson, TX 75083-0688 > > (972) 883-2775 (o) > (972) 883-2989 (fax)