3326 West 46 St
Cleveland 2, Ohio

8 III 1956

Dear Mr Pound,

As only available sign of my serious intent in writing
this note, I introduce myself as a former student of Mr
Dudley Fitts', of which teacher and translator of Greek you
may know. I mention him because it was under his roof that
I first read or met with your work, and in order that you
may be enabled to place my questions within some sort of locus.

The student-operated radio station at Oberlin College
(Oberlin, Ohio) has allowed me one hour per week on the air.
I have spent it for some weeks, with a few friends, in reading
in and outside English, playing recorded music, giving local
neophyte composers and youngling writers a hearing: in hope
that Hertzian waves may have an ordering effect on a few of the
few listeners' brains. Since I am not myself a student there,
I enjoy sufficient immunity to spend a series of programs, six
or eight, reading your work.

I plan to take up at least two hours reading excerpts from
the 'canon' you have recommended in ABC of Reading and elsewhere;
the rest of the time will be poetry, heavy on the Cantos, with
as much prose cross-light as seems urgent or of use. Quite
naturally, I cannot barter for or steal enough time to read
out the Gesammelte Werke; I must present lopped branches.

And so these two questions:

A. Can you suggest any fragments which seem crucial to
the Cantos, or without which a young stranger's collage
might gape or misrepresent?

B. Would you make any additions to or changes in the list
of inventions outlined in ABC, How to Read, Kulchur?