Please check that in the email header, your name is written as Stoner James, but
here it is Stoner James. Which one is correct ?

> I suppose my point is that Pound scholars--academic or not--have a very
> difficult time, indeed, in persuading people who do read poetry (and enjoy
> it), that Pound is worth reading, other than saying, "if you don't like
> him, don't read him."  Your job as "Poundians" should be, at least to a
> large degree, is to bring him out of the muddy depths and into the clear
> blue water, rather than letting his corpse rot in the steel hull four
> miles below the ocean top.  Who really cares about Pound?  Why don't
> people care about Pound?  I would submit that it's because of the elitist
> attitudes represented by many folks on this site.  What really, my fellow
> Pound friends, entices one to want to read Pound?  Your replies are a
> sorry testiment to the fact that 50 years from now Pound will have had a
> wooden stake pounded in his bloodless heart.  If this group, representing
> the true Pound scholars, can give no more than their moving testemonies to

> Pound's greatness as a poet, and nothing else, than indeed why go on.
> Maybe Pound is dead.  Maybe that is what I'm hearing.
>
> I have studied Pound as a side show for some years.  I find much value in
> his work, however, he's difficult and obscure, as you know.  The
> translators can't even translate him well enough to get young people
> interested in him.  My final opinion is that maybe you folks would do
> better to find the value and articulate that value in a way that folks can
> understand it, to get them interested enough so that they will continue
> searching the mud.  Maybe, if on occassion, a golden nugget appeared, we
> might want to go on looking, coming up from time to time to clean our
> lungs, warm our bones, and dive again.
>
> Yes, Emerson (more so than Plato) expressed a poetic and wrote with poetic
> prose.  Emerson's poetry may stink, but his prose is truly poetic, in
> every sense of the word.  Yes, indeed, I prefer the poet philosopher over

> the poet politician (Mr. Pound falls into the latter category.)
>
> How does one unsubscibe from a group that fails to reflect critically upon
> its own activity.
>
> I thank you all for enlightening me to the value of this man's work.  I
> wish you luck.  I will go on without you, but I doubt one man can keep his
> work alive.  I hold little power that way.
>
> Truly, dismayed.
>
> I did not spell check this, what's the use?
>
> James Stoner
>
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