Jean Stein

Fidelio: Ezra PoundAuthor(s): James LaughlinSource: Grand Street, No. 57, Dirt (Summer, 1996), p. 179Published by: Jean SteinStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25008068 .

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JAMES LAUGHLIN

Three Pentastichs

A Lover's Oath: Callimachus of Cyrene, born 310 B.C.

Khiron swore to Jonis that no one, woman or

man, would ever be dearer to him. But we

know lovers' oaths don't penetrate to

celestial ears. Now he's mad for a pretty

boy, and poor lonis has a broken heart.

Fidelio: Ezra Pound

Ezra and Olga and I were staying at the Goldene Rose

in Salzburg. We went to hear Toscanini conducting

Fidelio in the Festspielhaus. Ezra never liked Beethoven.

After ten minutes, he rose up and shouted: "What can you

expect, the man had syphilis?" Toscanini didn't miss a beat.

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