Dear Leopold, and others,
 
Pasolini did indeed interview Pound, in 1968. I find the interview deeply
interesting, and have used it to frame the fifth chapter of my book, *Ezra
Pound, Popular Genres, and the Discourse of Culture* (1995). David Anderson
transcribed and translated the interview for *Paideuma* in the Fall issue of
1981.
 
Cheers,
 
Michael Coyle
 
                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Leopold Green [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
                Sent:   Wednesday, August 11, 1999 8:56 AM
                To:     [log in to unmask]
                Subject:        Pound and Passolini
 
                Sorry I've been away and missed the fuss with the
interjections from the
                Idaho teenager, I was more interested in the Passolini
reference in the
                below message, have you seen Salo Joe? For those who haven't
seen this work,
                and I'd very strongly recommend it, at the end, when the
'innocents' are
                being grotesquely tortured, while the Fascist archetypes
watch via opera
                glasses the radio plays two works Carmina Burana and then
Pound reading the
                99th Canto. I think the fact that Passolini used not one of
Pounds real
                radio broadcasts from the time but a recording of a Canto
written much later
                [the film is set in late 1944] is significant. He isn't
making a 'Pound the
                fascist' point but rather including Pound in the litany of
art that forms
                the films backdrop...art like anything else is a commodity,
which makes
                sense given that the film seems to say, to me at least, that
capitalism has
                no 'victims' or 'innocents' since we are all complicit in
our
                acquiescence...we quite literally will eat shit, or pay to
watch a film we
                people eat shit.
 
                I seem to remember that Passolini interviewed Pound in the
60's for Italian
                television, though I don't have any further details. Anyone
confirm this, or
                supply a digest of the conversation?
 
                Leopold Green
                De Montfort University
                UK
 
                -----Original Message-----
                From: Joe Brennan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
                Sent: 29 July 1999 15:36
                To: [log in to unmask]
                Subject: Re: troll
 
                well put.....  criticisms like the one richard is responding
to reveal more
                about the critic than the subject under consideration.  to
criticize pound
                in
                any meaningful way is to make him as honorable as one
honestly can; only
                then
                will the true magnitude of pound's malevolence come into
focus.  perhaps the
                most devastating criticism of pound's embrasure of fascism
was made by pier
                paolo passolini in his last film: Salo: 120 Days of Sodom.