Gists & piths: a memoir of Ezra Pound

Laughlin, James

Published by Windhover Press, Iowa [City], 1982

About this Item

Edition limited to 250 copies, this the first (number 1) of 25 copies signed by the author and with the original signed postcard from Pound inside the rear cover pocket; 8vo, pp. [2], 22, [2]; printed in red and black; title page embossed with the likeness of Pound's head; fine copy in original brown niger-backed paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt on spine. Also, with a printed slip concerning Laughlin's donation of the post cards to the University of Iowa Foundation. From the library of Kim Merker. This particular postcard (postmarked Oct. 22, 1937) is addressed by Pound in type to James Laughlin (and with a forwarding address added in ink likely by a New Directions employee); the body of the text is typed with four additions by Pound in ink, the whole signed in ink, 'E.P.' A typically manic Pound creation: In part: "I suppose some supposer supposed that representin "Globe" here iz th same as Globating the representation etc / in the there / otherwise there is one born ever 3 minutes." Here, Pound inserts in ink: "Besides it may be over by now." He continues: "re Pell / IZ he Pell of Livright? and what does he mean a difference??? . anyhow the sommer the cash comes in the sooner it can go OUT that is called circulation . PS / about old Bill / dn it I HAVE an opinion as with Marianne / for years I bat it into the brick stupidity of the pubk till someone prints 'em and then they xpect me to HAVE an opinion / they havin don non of the constructy . Why don't they do a bit of work getting ME into circulation." James Laughlin was editor of New Directions, and over the course of his relationship with Pound, received better than 1500 letters from him. Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 79.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gists & piths: a memoir of Ezra Pound
• Publisher: Windhover Press, Iowa [City]
• Publication Date: 1982
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