I'd think it was more meant as "crazy," but I didn't read the piece.
At 10:08 AM -0800 11/12/98, Jonathan Gill wrote:
>Did anyone else notice Archie Moore's comment about Cassius Clay in the
>New Yorker article on Muhammad Ali a few weeks ago? Here it is:
>
>"Sometimes he sounds humorous, but sometimes he sounds like Ezra Pound's
>poetry."
>
>I suspect this is from the early 1960s--at any rate, before Clay became
>Ali. Not that I know Moore as a lover of poetry, but perhaps to show
>Pound's presence in popular culture at the time. Pound as humorless and
>obscure?
>
>Jonathan Gill
>Columbia University