Jonathan. Sorry. I'm coming to this discussion late. Is 'the poetry' you
refer to below primarily the Cantos? Also, what does 'Jewish textuality'
mean. And how connected 'formally'?-Carlo Parcelli
Jonathan P. Gill wrote:
> 
> Tim Romano and Everybody:
> 
> Perhaps "coded" is the wrong word--it suggests that Pound was somehow
> hiding something in wartime propaganda.  If there is anything that
> distinguishes Pound from the Eliot, Heidegger, and de Man, it is Pound's
> honesty (I think he never apologized because he never really understood
> his own misdeeds as anything more than personal).
> 
> As for his eccentric way with the anti-semitic register and lexicon, I
> guess I mean something more like using condensed and suggestive language
> in a playful way--that is, with a great deal of play.  Something like
> shorthand, I guess.  So that the mere mention of the date 1873 suggests a
> vast global conspiracy of international bankers in New York and London
> working to manipulate monetary policies on behalf of the Jew and
> Jewish...well, this is the kind of condensed thought that Pound's
> condensed language can lead to.
> 
> Perhaps we now have enough to go back to the poetry, which I am convinced
> is intimately involved, thematically and formally, to Pound's ideas about
> Jews and Jewish textuality.
> 
> Incidentally, in this context, Pound's "sub-Jew" is a person, Jewish or
> non-Jewish, who exhibits those qualities that are below even a
> Jew--whatever Pound thinks those are.  Roosevelt and Churchill, for
> example, both of whose gentile ancestry Pound doubted ("Rosenstein" and
> "Kirschenberg").
> 
> Jonathan Gill
> Columbia University
 
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