In a message dated 05/23/2001 10:46:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<<
 Put very bluntly, as long as Pound scholars
 do not acknowledge that his fascism, his elitism, his imperialism,
 and his racism are integral features of his world
 view, no deep understanding can be achieved.
  >>

has wei snuck back on the list?  didn't we put up with enough of this crap
way back then?  goodness, just who is it that ignores this part of Pound?
I'll tell you what underlies this kind of logic -- nothing Pound wrote or did
is free from the taint of his fascism, racism, sexism, etc., which, to put it
plainly, is just bullshit, and I for one tire of being preached to by the
Pound haters as if they, and only they, have the courage to read Pound in
context; in fact I think just the opposite is true -- the Pound haters can't
get through their own projections to see Pound for what he was -- and wasn't.
 there is value to Pound, and a poetics quite untainted by his defects.  to
link Pound up with Bob Kerrey is foolish -- Pound never waked into anyone's
hooch and slit the throats of its occupants, what he did do was to run his
mouth.  he was not a policy maker, he had practically zero influence with the
policy makers, he had no effect (at least any that's be document) on the
public at large -- he mostly made a fool of himself. m on the other hand, he
had honest impulses and decent motives from time to time that didn't include
genocide, rape, or robbery.

joe brennan