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In a message dated 2/17/01 9:01:56 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:
<< What possible reason would Ginsberg have had to lie about this? Or is this
just to keep up the constantly chipping paint job on Ezra? >>
I didn't say he lied. I simply report that Forrest Read didn't believe EP
said that. Unfortunately, Read is no longer around to explain his disbelief.
If I had to speculate as to why AG would make up this story (if, in fact, he
did) I would guess that he thought it might put into the great poet's legacy
a way for younger poets to embrace him whole. I don't know. From what I
remember of Read, his Pound would not apologize, such apology being an
admission of guilt, sort of like a plea bargain. I think Read thought the
telling word was 'suburban', as this seemed to reduce the grotesque sickness
of anti-semitism to a kind of bland snobbery, a reduction neither he (Read)
nor Pound would accept. Again, I don't know.
Jay Anania
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