for those of you who don't follow the boxing world, Archie Moore was almost as much of a character as was Pound.  A great, longtime fighter, in his later days, took on persona in the ring. He once actually powdered his face white to make it look as if he were sick and on his last legs.  Told his younger opponent to be easy on him and just let him survive the fight.  The young kid felt sorry for old Archie, let down his guard, and got walloped.  Awfully glad to know that Archie was also literary.
 
>>> Sylvester Pollet <[log in to unmask]> 11/12 8:16 AM >>>
I'd think it was more meant as "crazy," but I didn't read the piece.
 
At 10:08 AM -0800 11/12/98, Jonathan Gill wrote:
>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