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