Claim to Fame #1: My Relationship to Ezra Pound

I don’t know the best way to express this. I’ll try a few ways:

          Pound’s son Omar was the husband of my half-sister’s father’s niece.
          My half-sister’s father’s sister had a daughter who married Pound’s son Omar.
          My half-sister’s father’s niece, in other words my half-sister’s first cousin on her father’s
side, was married to Ezra Pound’s son Omar.
          One of the two daughters of my half-sister’s father’s sister Louise Margaret married
Pound’s son Omar.
          My half-sister’s aunt Louise Margaret’s daughter’s father-in-law was Ezra Pound.
          My half-sister’s aunt’s daughter’s father-in-law was Ezra Pound.
          My half-sister’s first cousin’s father-in-law was Ezra Pound.

          Later:
          I explained this as best I could to a friend who is an expert on Pound, since I thought it
might interest him. He was mildly interested, but then pointed out that Omar was not in fact
Pound’s biological son.
          His only biological child was one he did not acknowledge.
          That child was the illegitimate daughter of Olga Rudge.
          I don’t mind having my facts corrected.

LYDIA DAVIS is the author of one novel and seven story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the acclaimed translator of a new edition of Swann’s Way and a new translation of Madame Bovary.