EZRA POUND

23

res publica, the public convenience

RAPALLO

VIA MARSALA, 12 INT. 5

Dear Zuk

Here is what appears to be what I was trying to
get off me chest this a:m:

I don't think I ought to write it as an article. I don't
care about the authorship/ if any body wants to " SAY " it
I will placidly disappear and not REMAIN claim it.

If nobody wants to say it; I don't mind someone, say
Johns, quoting it as from a private letter of mine.

In one sense it is apity one can not simply muder the Lippmanns
Boyds, etc..// in another ; whozzer use// there are always
a new crop : a hard terd like Gosse replaced by a soft
green one like Squire ; etc.

There aren't enough men to man the posts /// AT the same
time the few decent ones OUGHT to be somewhere in controll
of SOMETHING.

No use knockin Tate ; he is prob/ doing his damndest.
And quite good for the Nation. in fact probably too good
for the damn rag.

( More fundamental misconceptions than
Fitts ; but a glimmer of light to balance . The misconception
aren't a literary HHHH at any rate ; but miscon. about
LIFE ( Buh jheezz ) //

where he got idea that XXX was the
end. ( prob/ not an idea ; just loose expression.

How ~~the~~ people controlling the situation and sitting on it in smug ~~self-satisfaction~~ expect to ~~escape~~ the infamy that has been the lot of their likes.

Take it that neither Pound, Williams or Eliot get 50 dollars a month out of America in respect to their literary work, ~~not~~ only has it been impossible at various times for them to do so, but they probably have not averaged that over the past 20 years, and despite their present position or recognition the ~~these~~ conditions have not changed.

The people responsible are not only the publishers but the various tribes of parasites infesting the weekly reviews, the Canbys, VanDorens, Benets etc. (Old Villard merely ~~and~~ dunderhead with a few fixed ideas late 80s. liberal and no knowledge of, or interest in, literature. Minor figures of the feeding critics; general cohesion and ~~of~~ blater of minor inferiority complexes.

first question not whether they can " help it " but whether they are full of satisfaction with the conditions . 2 whether they have even considered trying to improve things.

If P/E/and W/ not victims like Poe it is because they have been more disgusted than depressed by the ~~unconscionable~~ onstructionism.

v Marsala 12

30 Luglio

Dear Zuk

Dunno azi kan offer any sage councils.
I think H.N.Foster, 54 Crown St. Hartford Conn cd. be utile
in whatever mag/ you may start, or you cd.
absorb his mimeographed ?????

Thanks fer the Cummings. Also Taup for diligence in dactigraphy.

I enc. the local nooz /// I WANT all possible pu[licity].
Both to strengthen Hardings hand INSide the Brit. Bdcast.
and to lead to tone film. Any ninth rate journalist
that you can get to slide it into N.Y. paper
wd. assist. Must have the clipping ; though.

Am through with Bitch and Bugle. Ah am FRU, bloody WATTH
waste of time tryin to get anything into Cherrystone's
cocoanut.

Re/ Weakly pyper//// daily wd. do even better.
All I contend is that such connection wd. be
useful to you.....

Re/ Arriet. Fer ten years at a stretch I 'ave 'ad
to treat that mug's gazeen azif it were not.
As it pays a little, one has a crack at saving the
tax payer's money now n agen.

EZRA POUND

RAPALLO

VIA MARSALA, 12 INT. 5

Did I ? yes , ¹ did , enquire of thee re the autobiog. of
M'artin van Buren.

any signs ??

If you can dig into the SUN far enough to git job that
wd. permit yr/ freer wider an larger circulation I am
in accord with the TIBOR re/ permittin you to circulate.

Butttt the TIME haz come to establish a outpost
on the rock of Manhattan .

How often have you entered the Sun ?

etc.

have been workin like hell fer six weeks.

EZRAPOUND

RAPALLO

VIA MARSALA, 12 INT. 5

23 Dec.

TO ( with carbon copy being sent to Z/kfksky )

Sure you can use any statement of mine likely to sell the goods/ i;e; fast enough so'z to keep in action at max. speed, and keep able to print what we (US; me) want to read.

Folio all goes in ONE vol. that's the point. Material stablishent of the unity of 25 or 30 years WOIK.

2 cols. only way to economize on prod. and also, the eye gits wore out shifting across a folio sized page. NO use for reading.

eyestrain one of evil to be avoided.

//

Tozzi is, alas, dead. Buhtin' will have to arrange to pay any widows and orphans/ percentage on his percentage. 1/3 on advance and 1/2 later; I shall suggest to him. But he has plenty of leisure to work the arrangement. If no widows and orphans: damn the heirs and ass/signs.

///

There is what ought to be a seller/ Notari's ' Terrorista " comic work/ but an out size / only about 125 pahes. so usual novel pubrs/ wont handle it. about 12;000 cops/ sold in wop. Olga rarin and roarin to traduce it.

It aint lofty and serious, but might help