4 May

VIA MARSALA 12-5

E. POUND

RAPALLO

Dear ZKFSK

I suppose the good Marsano was trying to get it
past the customs cheap. I hope SO. God damn all bureaucrats.

the L sign is used for Lire/ in Italy / both woids deriving
from latin term/ I mean the Brish pund/ sign also being latin
in origin. guhuhh !!!

If YOU had said WHAT you paid the blasted duty on, I shd
now know how much I owe Nancy.

I hope you had sense enough to KEEP one copy of Cav/ fer
yerself, and estimate that the non-arriver was for SALE.

I don't think 6.50 is enuff fer Cantos/ advise socking it
onto the pubk/ let the bastuds pay 12 dollars / with
a 2 dollar discount to stewdents and good writers IF you
think them worthy.

Remission of 4. dollars on Cavalcanti O.K. charge 6.50
to customers if necess/ to clear postage etc.
or praps/ charge 6.dollars AND postage.

I don't see why you shdnt. have a copy of Cantos for
5 bucks. I mean you divide my profiks. can't offer
terms from the " press ".

E. POUND

RAPALLO

VIA MARSALA 12-5

I've been calling Canby a god damned sovnabitch for a year
on grounds that he NEVER invited any decent critics onto his
bungwad.

Godwd damnit / what you cant do wiff sugar try with a root
in the tayle. I hope the slimer comes thru.

Yaas/ and IF Mr Oppen hadn't " typed " Spirit of Romance
mebbe the printer wd. NOT have put all the starting quote
marks arse=side before/ making total of more errors than
all the wrong letters wd. have.

I hope for " TO'S " sake he will omit to type the second
chunk.

Besides Darrantiere has an compositor that knaws english
and there are fewer emendations in ink.

I done told him ( OP/ ) to send in the printed pages and
to tell the printer to leave blank what he was uncert
of , and I wd. fill in with type-written words......

any local typist wd. have introduced more errors than
she wd. have removed. Oppen did a marvelous job BUT the
quote marks more than wiped it out / some """"" back AND
front bein same on typewriter but NOT in print.

there are only about 6547 in the work aforesaid.

VIA MARSALA 12.5

E. POUND

RAPALLO

AWL rite/

Sell um fer wot you can get/ if anything.
and remit what's left. when you have eaten/ if ever.

Had s'more proofs ( slightly eratic ) in Firenze two hours
before I went on fer me song and dance , deelighting
the audience as they say by my "caustic wit " ( as they
apparently don't wish to quote any specimens )

Why don't that old ASS Bill gruinus von Vilhelmstrasse send
me his bleating lamb of a maggerzeen...... izz ee fraid
of my caustic ??

Sam Puttenheim is drunk half the time/ over works the
other two thirds / worries I shd/ think about his health
( which is the worst known to man ) the remaining fifth/
His last issue New Rev. inexcusable on any other base/ass.

Sorry / he'za sympathetic kuss/ I have said
faretheewell to his orgum.

ANYHOW / my corrections of Prolegomena ( vol. I. containing
alas sections I and 2 ) has went to Muster Oppen this a/m/

Wd. be good thing to start 3d. issue before
printer finishes this job. I mean the issue S will have to
overlap if O/ is going to bring out six a year.

Yaas/ profile is that there anth/ done in 1931. copies shd.
have reached you. Please plant a review of it / not fer my
sake only/ Scheiwiller good guy/ ought to be NNNNcouraged.

because he has from the outset, insisted in considering
world literature as a whole.

No one denies the effect of his example and manifestos on
or at any rate on change in the manner
the reform of American poetry, we emphasize not only
this historic aspect of certain simple ideas, but
the full program which implies a radical reform in
education, and in the whole teaching of literature.
The author is doubtless most concerned with his own
work, is in second degree concerned with the actual practice
of writing but he has also given something
that is of use to any and every reader, any and
every student of literature and something which the
teachers of literature will, in his own words
"either have to attend to or get out lock stock and
barrel."

TO PUBLISHERS

announce for forthcoming publication the following
in installments of

PROLEGOMENA

(list as furnished)

and the following volumes

XXXXXXXX

qqqq

by XXXXX

by ZZZ etc.

frawg wd. reach his maximum utility WOULD
be in takin over the american rubric in the
Murk Ure dè France or in some bloody other
french lettersary maggerzeen that
circulates ( or did )

revue
The katlog of his pubr/ mentions an anglo americaine
???
didj jennybody ever hearn of it K?

What's your opinyum of Leipert ?

Basil tells me the said L. has good intentions,
BUT is he pubing/ a mag/ and can it serve ?

I want to d vil up somewhere and with illustrati
/ions my remarks re/ rise of murkn crizism

Will you attend to the enc. There is no way
of sending 24 cents to Washington from here.

at least it wd. take hours.
and I cant legally issue chg/ for less
than one buck. eat or drink the change/
better you nor them.

I note their cable address is Goprinto.
how sovietical.