Pound's recanting theories propagated by Donald Hall, Allen Ginsberg and Co.
were intended to show an ancient, decadent, frustrated, castrate Pound
palatable to the liberals and the politically correct mob. In Canto CXX he
asked for forgiveness "those I love".  Obviously in this list aren't bankers,
Baruch, F.D.R., university professors and some members of the "Pound industry".
 
Gerald Steen wrote:
 
> In John Tytell's "Ezra Pound - The Solitary Volcano" he stated on page 338:
>
> "Two weeks before his eighty-seventh birthday he read at a small cafe for
> an intimate gathering of friends. The material included a sort of
> postscript to The Cantos:
>
> 're USURY
> I was out of focus, taking a symptom for a
> cause.
> The cause is AVARICE .' "
>
> Tytell goes on with "It all seemed like an apologia, ..."
>
> Does anyone disagree that Pound recanted on his lifelong stand on usury?