> "In fact, I don't know of a single country in which Pound has actually
been
> banned.  Does anyone?"

i agree with billy stoneking, the answer to this one's the u.s.,
...not, of course in the primitive sense, but, after the fashion
of rich people,  with their old reliable "framework of permissable
discourse"
...with its vigilant eager legion of enforcers,
a la billy's anecdote
...the perpetual tyranny of bourgeois liberal philistinism.
precluding any serious attending to ep,
to how much greater effect than any simple-minded measure

bob


----- Original Message -----
From: William Marshall <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: Pound banned?


> "In fact, I don't know of a single country in which Pound has actually
been
> banned.  Does anyone?"
>
> I don't know of any countries which have banned Pound, but I do know my
own
> experience with my play about Pound - SIXTEEN WORDS FOR WATER - has met
with
> powerful opposition from some quarters in the US and elsewhere. For
example,
> I was paid a hefty advance by the Melbourne Theatre Company in 1993 so
that
> it could produce the play in 1994. To this day, the play has NEVER been
> produced by that company, despite an advance payment to me in the
thousands
> of dollars. I must be the only Australian playwright in that country's
> history that has been paid NOT to have my play produced, And this from a
> major, government subsidised company.
>
> A similar thing happened in 1991, when a NYC producer was extremely keen
to
> produce the play in NYC, then at the behest of five friends (not all of
them
> Jewish) pulled the plug on the project owing largely to his fears (fueled
by
> these same friends) that the play would be boycotted and that prospective
> audience members wouldn't be able to penetrate the picket lines, etc.  So
is
> Pound banned? You tell me.
>
> Billy Marshall Stoneking
> http://ezrapound.cjb.net