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EZRA POUND

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EZRA POUND
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>EZRA POUND </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial; text-transform:uppercase'>“I Have On Rare Occasions Been Paid For Writing”</span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'><BR><BR></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>(1883-1972). American avant-garde poet, critic and writer who greatly influenced literature from the ’20s through the ’50s. A member of the American expatriate literary circle, he moved to Paris in 1920 where he forced Joyce’s controversial <i>Ulysses</i> into print. Among his best-known works are <i>The Cantos</i> (1925). TLS “<i>EZP</i>” with several holograph annotations, 2½pp, 4to, Rapallo, Aug 1, [1939]. On his illustrated letterhead to Jay Bradley, explaining his requirements and opinions for organizing a literary page in the <i>Greenwich Time</i>. “...<i>Several points you haven’t expressed (or grasped?). One: if I am to live in America it OUGHT to be possible for me to earn a living wage. I don’t insist, but at any rate in principle. also I have on rare occasions been Paid for writing. I can NOT organize a real literary page unless I can pay contributors. I am willing to have a shot at raising money BUT I must have something to offer. I am willing to try to build up the paper, but must be bait; at least a 15 to 1 chance of future payment. // I dont mean to hold up the traffic. Enc./ notice of two things You (personally, and Williams) should READ to keep the office, at least, informed...Yunnerstand I practically NEVER recommend a book as reading matter. to be READ. Occasionally one is worth quoting (which is a different matter) Also I cant or oughtnt to take time OFF from writing books to write noozwyper artcls/ Unless they are going to DO something. Am not writing fer fun of being in print. There are twenty cantos at Fabers: contracted to come out.</i>..” Creased at folds; light wear; else VG.</span></p>