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Subject:
Pound and Boxing
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Jonathan Gill <[log in to unmask]>
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Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 12 Nov 1998 10:08:07 PST
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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

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