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Re Pound, Ginsberg, and apologies:
I find Pound's remarks to Ginsberg most unsatisfactory. There's not much
sorrow, regret, or responsibility in the statement. I pressed Ginsberg on
this in person several years before his death but never
prevailed--Ginsberg wasn't very open to new interpretations of the
conversation. Then again, perhaps, Ginsberg felt a certain sympathy with
an aged poet.
Also, let's not forget the apology--an apologia, really, and a very
revealing one--in the preface to Selected Prose, written months before
Pound's death, as a way of explaining the decision to include in that
volume a kind of greatest hits of Pound's intolerance.
Jonathan Gill
Columbia University
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