My, my, but you put such energy into such a thin hoax.

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From: Stoner James [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 3:53 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Roma locuta, causa finite.

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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