[lbo-talk] Correction Re: [Fwd: Omar Pound, September 10, 1926-March 2, 2010]

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Mar 6 17:13:32 PST 2010


Omar is the son of Ezra Pound and his wife, Dorothy Shakespeare Pound. He has a daughter with Olga Rudge, Mary de Rachewitz. She is the wife of Prince Boris de Rachewiltz, an Egyptologist. I knew all this but somehow got it reversed.

Incidentally, Wikipedia identifies Olga Rudge as Pound's "mistress," a bit of an anachronism. And gross in light of the last page of The Cantos:

That her acts

Olga's acts

of beauty

be remembered

Her name was Courage

& is written Olga

These lines are for the

ultimate CANTO

whatever I may write

in the interim

Carrol



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