WASHINGTON, D. C.
MAY 14
9:30PM
1946

52

Cat, Trapped 4 Days
In Chimney, Rescued

NEW YORK, June 16 (N Y
News)—A cat, trapped for 96 hours
in an old chimney was rescued to-
day by a police emergency squad.

Two-Headed, 4-Eyed
Cat Born in Queens

NEW YORK, June 12 (AP)—A two-headed cat with four eyes, two mouths but only two ears was born today to a cat owned by Mrs. Emily Mason in Howard Beach, Queens. The kitten, one of a litter of five, is alive and apparently in good health, Mrs Mason said.

necessary to support our moral leadership."

Actually the presidential commission study is recognition of the fact that adequate national security has entered a new phase. We can no longer rely on oceanic isolation to give us a breathing period in which to organize. Because of its wealth and position of leadership, the United States is the logical first target for aggression. General Eisenhower has warned that "the decision in a future conflict would be determined by our ability to act and react in the first 60 days, rather than the twelfth, eighteenth or twenty-fourth month, as in past wars." In other words, we must be ready, and that readiness is in itself the best guarantee that we will not be challenged. Universal training of itself would not provide adequate security. It cannot be evaluated, as the commission notes, "except in its relation to, and its effect upon, many other activities." But, aside from its incidental benefits, there is sound military reason for universal training in building up a reserve of men who could be mobilized quickly in an emergency. The recommenda-

"Now, That's Real Art—

Compliments of
AJAX ICE & COAL CO.

47 JUNE 47

Mary Barnard

I

Now the dead lend us
Peace for the dark hours.

At midnight the never-
To-awaken sleep lightly;
Yet those who lay in love
At death-fall have quiet to lend.

Only the murdered must walk.
The murderer clutches at sleep
As at scant covers; wakes chilled.

Come now,
Comes now death-lent oblivion. I love
Her who died unknown to me.
I adjust my bones to the composure
Of hers.
Peace fall on my exile
From hers.

II

Nothing matters at all; so
Sweep the mind clean

empty

And sweet-scented as a stubblefield
At evening when the constellations
Of the daisies have fallen.

Let it lie open, lit
By stars, their light wisely steady,
Rooted outside the seasons.

But blood pounds in the ears,
The lungs, contracted, labor.
To the flesh of the field,
Alive with worm and seed,
Tomorrow is in the night wind, rain
Or drought, desired or feared,
Spirals toward earth.

Mortal stirrings demand
Horoscopes of the stars.

The leaf of a
they

The almanac of the heavens.
They wait. Weather is all.

77

Ma. B.

Something to be done about it. Can't quickly WHAT ?

Danger points, after the early chaps where
I did not notate 'em.

P. 157 : where stood ( that aint LANGUAGE ).

whole thing so of a piece v. difficult to see specific
modes of emendation.

per es / 158. After Sherwood Anderson, and the era of
1927 when " runnin' dahn th' road " became slang.
( vide Hem's " Torrents of Spring " ) CAN one run down road ??

yet how to cook that chap/ end/ without it. waaal thazz
M.B's zaffair.

p. 162. just a little too much symbolic sculpture fer them
thaaarr gnu england hills ?

p. 188. alder just a bit tew poetik.

Anyhow, report reading completed at 11.10 ant.m. on
Sardy.

There's enough in it to make it worth saving.

Of course no knowledge of present state of murkn fixshun,
or what is done, what is sold, what is printed in hope
of 'eteam etc.

personal opn/ not much use, shall collect a few other opns/

80

M bd/

IF the concentration etc/ or if gone stale on shorts/
A JOB/ eggzerzise. Bloke it was assigned to , has fell dowN.

Namely to revise Binyon's trans/ Dante/

very simple and within
yr/ capacity. Go thru and remove ALL inversions, all departures
from simple order/ whether this makes lines uneven or not/
rhyme eggzercise valuable as draws attention to sound az wellAZ
to rhythm.

probably AFTER straightening out the word order M.B. wd/
find it pretty easy to restore the terza rima and 11 syl/
lines thruWoWt.

Something to pass the time in winTR.

Wen the BinBin employs nat/ order he has some eggZelend
lines.

Blathering nuissance that practice of revising good
stuff frum age to age/ has been bitched by the k'uang shik
, weekly lice, and profLice.

something LONGenuff, enough matter so that vr/ cut down
wd/ still leave mass.

Mary

still got any influence with that ass Abbot ?
and he with that ass his brother ??

I mean instead of thinking Vancouver out of the world etc/

Dudek v. eggZited re Lākakis

/

waaal Lās sculpture
certainly damsight better than a lot of trype at the Mus/
Mod/ Awt.

with which latter carumbus Ez haz no inflooENZ.

y.m. in N.Y. now whooped up cause Mrs Archipenko is interested
in L/ 's work

fergit if Mary ever gd round to W. 28th st. wich if KNOT
izza piddy cause she cant speak as from having seen.

Ez candyhapped cause haz only seen fotos. Hitherto interested
only in Gaudier and Brancus' mod skupperz BUT that is no leverage on
the RAbbots

( spellit wiff a o , m deah , I mean with
a o fore an aft.

Barry of course scared . but not
purzoombly of Mary . shd/ think line might be re/the Beefaloo
RAbbot

IF any.

M.Bd/

AN ADVANCE, so far aZi kno on earlier trans/ of S/
BUTTT yu mix two languages, the LIVE

as in first line /

and the dead/ on delicate neck by me.

Waaal gorrdammit / what is the time lag ? 25 years ? but better now than never. / no time lag 16 years. not bad fer murka.

not as fer the stiinin-on-the-tree bird, that wd/ be german order.

Cant perfect simply by deleting useless words and words NOT in the speech of line 1.

BUT there are other good lines. Job not wholly wasted by any means. The circles words cant simply be cut out

merely energy gets lost.

2nd/ subject

I beleev

yu know Diarmuid Russel, waaal McAlmon has sent him some stories / and it wd/ be a USEFUL time to TELL Rsl that Mac had more influence and stimulated more amurkn writing than Hem/ and that IF it is an asset there are published remarks of Ez/ to say nothing about stuff in 'EXILE', that cd/ be used by a publisher who thought Ez' opinym wuz AT LAST a asset. ( when favorable). Don't anyone kno any to eggspose iggurunce of VanW/ Brooks ( or what reviewers lead present readers to suppose is Brooks. .. not that it is worth Ez looking to see wot Brooks actually said.

But cert/ the result in gutter press is idiotic. and cd/ be used for cleaning cloacae.

yes, yu can get apparent analogy in Homage to S.Prop/
BUT is it used in same way. Sappho not being
merely ironic.

The JOB of the writer of verse. is to get the LIVE language
AND the prosody simultaneously. Prosidy * : articulation of the
total sound of a poem. ( not bits of certain shapes gummed together.)

M.B. 2

There is a nice rev/ of Letters in Shenandoah. Spring 51
There is a lively issue of INTRO , current. Not only
artl/ re EP.

BUT a blast by a bloke named Elath, AT LAST
kussing out Partisan , Tate , Late, Spate . Quate and the
lot uvum.

Of course li'l mags die before lie-Burrieds git roun to
scription.

IZ all this clear. M.B. to conceal source of request/

OH yuss, that blockhead Edwards is doing a bibliography etc/
BUT not with intelligence.

theses on all sorts of stuff the
kawlidges dont want etc.

I am talking about a basis fer USEFUL
( ef yu kno wot I mean ) USEFUL compilation/ fer to bore
holes in the Hemingway Anschauung as well as the wuss.

Hem all right IF yu want h condemnation to perpetual
life in cloacae.

might be a dot or so in
Alex Del Mar : Worship of Aug. Caesar

THERE

Allen Upward, Divine Mystery (prob/nowt)
F.R.
old Earp knows some greek, dunno if he
wd/ be interested

Style of Sophokles/ S. of Aesch
yu be'r go Frankfurt / Frobenius/ and
the gal wot did that bk/ on stones
symb/ beasts or whatso / silly not to
correlate with what they kno

there

13 Giugn

MR Brd

reported returnd to N.Pork.

This ¤ to serve notice BOOK SHOPPE at 169 Bleecker St
sporting admirable IDEOGRAM

Containing at eratik hours several suitable acquaintances
fer M.B.

Stesino reported teachin' 'em greek. Probably knowing
about 1/28 wot MB does / etc.

J.Kasper volkanik proprietor / with luck yu might find
relative civilized McNaughton

alzo / IF yu are thru with that Schifanoja vol/ wich I beel-
ieve I lent you annoBdUmBBunny the whateverth /

I wish you wd/ pass it on to McN/ for Sheri Martinelli /

her best paintings are here, ¤/ with eggsception of one

Madonna exported/ what there still is on sale I dunno/

However/ might still be something fer yr/ eggsperienced eye.

believe Arioste has flitted across the Bleecker scene/ but whether
now frequenting , I dunno.

at any rate if yu wanna bookeshoppe wot prefers to sell
READING matter

, I snuggest yu git hep

Phone number / Gramercy 7-8515

aak fer McNaughton/ before he got to N,Y, it was

reputed to be better to try about 6 p hem/

Whether Mc is keepin' more commercial hours I dunno.

Also a aaaaRRRaaBB famby Al Kahl, VERY highly thought of
by several/ only line on them is via the bookeshoppe/

Der junge Brunnenburger sez ; I wd/ enjoy the smell of the hay
by the rufscello.

JS

2 Miatta

Grauer.M.

You god damned fool , or the lot of yr/ acquaints/
The bubblegum is interezted in and moved by NOTHING
whatsodam BUT Jung and the sipylis of kiketry.

Mellin gives alledgedly full control to a stinker named
Barret / who tremebles at the /w/ s whisk of Mel's terror
of Chakey the Jackal.

Cairns can't even get Blackstone reprinted. tho he mentioned
the need in Mich, La Rev/ 15 years ago.

Why the hell dont yu /// oh hell.

aa

Like most of yr/ contemporaries and concits/ yu are dying of
egotism.

comment from Puerto Rico . on americans NOT getting cramp/ out of
quod.

" los intelectuales americanos tienen muy poco solidaridad. "

And how the hell yu can have read ANY Dante without even
catching a hint of civic sense, beats me.

AHH

I am dead sick of people who collaborate with NO ONE.

AND please send back the Scifanoja book, after ½ a decade.

2/

M.B. has never in 20 years reported the existence
of denizen of remains of the U.S. interested in ideas/

without which can't see a distinguished edtr/ rising
fully armed from the sewers of Manhattan/

It wd/ have to be someone CONsiderably annoved with
the muck streaming weekly thru the Lichерary cloacae
of vanDor/ Canby / Punk/ Shkunk. and the restuvum.

Nobody not FED UP wd/ bother.

8 Nov

Format / as the New Yorker/ NOT a god damn amateur lit/
mag/ but place for caricatures/ cover designs /

anybody wantto git start as a cover-designer / to take
subject required and smack the Schweinerhi .

journalism / someone to get request for cover subject / and
get it DONE in a day or so /

M.B. Marts 24

107

M.B/d

4 Oct

the yededitor of the Washington Spectator (a monthly)
17 Dupont Circle, Washington 6, D.C.

**got fired yester a.m.**

leaving a VOID/

format of wyper az of N.Yorker / BUTTT wiff NObler
aims/

If M.B. has anything lively enuff SEND it to their
office AT once /

( no not the verse , that dam KAT
or similar / better be single brief or briefish

/ an mebbe better read thru before sending to cut
relative clauses , if any / without falling into bull moose.

yrs anon/Y/muizz

whatever yu do , do it QUICK/ tho pubr/ MAY hv/ sense to
delay nex issu till Nov 6/

/ote I mean send by air mail etc.

3 Marzo '58

EZRA POUND

It is now to be pointed out that there is no decent translation of Callimachus " Delos " or of the old bogie Bion " Adonis " / both of which give something to get one's teeth into and a sustained body of verse , that needs an idiom AND a swing etc.

As to the Univ. of Calif ... and their cover designers ...

oh well/ I mourn with you for THAT outrage. better luck on the next edtn. it is decently printed I mean with the Kallimachus or Bion you got a mass solid enough to work on and get some surge.

The accompanying letters and notes from Ezra Pound to Mary Barnard were filed separately from those already deposited with the Beinecke Library, and were overlooked when I assembled the other collection for appraisal and annotation. I believe that, with one exception, they all have to do with a project I was working on in 1949-50. This is the reason they were in a separate file.

The circumstances were as follows:

In the spring of 1949 I went to Italy for the first time. Pound had drawn up an itinerary for me and I had followed it faithfully. When I returned I went to see him and took a big collection of post-cards that I had brought home (I had not taken a camera). I went to see him one afternoon with Dorothy Pound, and left the cards with him overnight. Next day we returned, and found him in a state of great excitement. He had a project for me. This idea had been generated, apparently, by one thing I had told him and one picture I had shown him the previous afternoon.

He had told me that while I was in Venice I must be sure to see the Carpaccios in San Giorgio degli Schiavoni. What I told him was that though I did find them, I hadn't found any other tourist, even people who had been to Venice a number of times, who had ever seen them. The main difficulty seemed to be that even the people who knew about them (and many didn't) couldn't find them. This probably sounds silly now, when tourists troop in and out of the chapel all day long, but when I first went there in June of 1949, I was the only visitor.

The picture I showed him was the enclosed photograph--a detail of Carpaccio's Miracolo della Croce in the Accademia.

I mentioned that I had only once wished I had a movie camera, in order to record the motions of the gondolier. Then I found this Carpaccio which records the movement as though in a number of frames from a moving picture film. Pound agreed that this was true, and was much struck because, although he had seen the painting many times, he had never noticed the fact.

The project he proposed is pretty clearly outlined in the notes and letters. It was to be a guidebook to frescoes or, at least, wall-paintings *in situ*, with a text that would contain not art criticism, but information that would help the viewer to understand what was going on in the picture, with some biographical background on the painter, and it was also to contain useful information on hotels, etc. The period was to be 1450 to 1525, approximately.
I chose to do Pisanello in Verona, Mantegna in Mantua, Gozzoli in Florence, Piero della Francesca in Arezzo, Uccello in Florence, Perugino in Perugia, Fra Angelico in Rome (Chapel of Nicholas V), Carpaccio in Venice (the book was to have a map showing how to reach San Giorgio degli Schiavoni). I proposed Pinturicchio in Siena, but Pound would have none of that, as the letters make clear.

The Schifanoia in Ferrara, of course! I forget what else./ My working title was *A Pagan's Guide to Italian Frescoes*. I did a great deal of reading and wrote an introduction and two essays, one on Pisanello and one on Mantegna. In order to carry this project to completion I would have had to have either an advance from a publisher or a fellowship to enable me to go back to Italy. My agent, Diarmuid Russell, was very pessimistic, but he did send out the introduction and the two sample chapters. No one was interested. And that was that.

["Avviandosi alla conclusione il\nP. M. dice di rimettersi al giudizi\ndiscrezionale della Corte circa\nl'opportunità di concedere o meno\ndo attenuti.", "I DELITTI DEI TAXI", "Arrestato l'assassino\ndi Felice Ghisalberti ?", "Milano, 3 febbraio", "Stamane, si è avuto in Questu-\na un drammatico interrogatorio\nseguito da un confronto. L'autista\nBellinzoni, che come e noto era\nil volante del taxi dal quale par-\ntoriva in via Lomaggiari e colpi che\nfreddarono Felice Ghisalberti, si\nera trovato di fronte all'individuo\ndai riconosciuto ieri sera in\nuna fotografia. Si uratta il sottoscrivo\nvane che giovane, sì dispero e sì\nprimo sul taxi in piazza Balamon-\nprimo sul taxi in piazza Balamon-\nprimo che avrebbe compiuto mate-\nrialmente il delitto.", "Ieri sera vennero presentate al", "Roma, 3 febbraio\n\nCon l'intervento del sottoseg-\ntario alle Poste e Telecomunica-\ntorio, sen. Uberti, si è riunita sta-\nmane a Montecitorio, in sede nor-\nnale, sotto la presidenza del\nAngelini, la commissione perma-\nnente dei comuni che ha pro-\nseguito l'esame del disegno di\nlegge contenente norme relative\nall'indennizzo di licenziamento ai\nsupplenti delle ricevitorie postali\ne telegrafiche. Il sottosegretario\nUberti ha comunicato che il go-\nverno aderisce al desiderio di\nsprezzo dalla commissione che ha\nil disennizzo di licenziamento sia\ncorrisposta in ragione di un meso\nper ogni anno di servizio pre-\nrestato, anziché di 15 giorni. Il re-\nlatore, on. Orlando, ha proposto\nin conseguenza un emendamento\nsostitutivo dell'art. 2 del testo mi-\nnale; nonché un articolo 1º, che\nla commissione ha ap-\nprovato.", "Sono stati successivamente ap-\nprovati i rimanenti articoli del\ndisegno di legge.", "Sì è inoltre riunita, sempre in\nsede normale, la commissione del\nl'agricoltura, sotto la presidenza\n dell'On. Dominò, riprendendo in\nesame il disegno di legge con-\nseguendo il concorso di Ste-\nma che anzi il Ropa doveva es-\nere considerato un benemerito\ndella causa particolare: del tutto\ninfondato quindi la tesi che vor-\nrebbe far passare il delitto com-\nprovento dalla volontà di punire\nuna spia od una collaborazionista.", "Scendendo quindi ad esaminare\nparticolarmente le deposizioni re-\nsedute dai vari testimoni di difesa,\nle due proatti hanno messo in risal-\nto come sono risultato troppo speso\ncon esternisti, incredibili e quali-\nche volta addirittura di una in-\nquinata quasi ridicola di un in-\ntal genere è, per esempio, l'afferma-\nzione di qualche teste secondo se-", "te, per i difensori degli impality\nche hanno questo disegno ed an-\nsorito a carico del Ropa e\nnonostro la sua connivenza con i\ntedeschi.", "Viceversa il teste, molto varo\ndell'impesto, ha finito molto vago\ne del 16 dicembre 1949.", "Concluse si ha riuscito gli avvi-\ntementali, hanno parlato gli avvi-\ntement

M.Bd

A GUIDE to Italian Frescos

showing where they are to be found ( Maps and street
indications )

with a discussion of those of the best epoch, which
also serves as guide in that

one who has looked at those discussed will then
be able to judge the earlier and later,

the earlier as less skilled and the later in which
mere skill in detail, rhetoric etc. / in accompanied
by deterioration in the unity and main drive.

yes. the TEWrisk wanz ter kno WHERE they are . name em
and give indications as to where.

but hhhh putt the blighter
in condition to see how the other are different

( not to say Wuhh wuss . O no need to dictate taste to
them unperwided with tasters.

GUIDE, baedecker ( lot can even be in small print, but LIST
of what's there ) and yatter about what is worth etc.
or what interests AT LEAST the writer.