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