New perspective on a perennial Pound topic can be found in Robert Fulford's feuilleton "Does art mend the soul or wound it?," at http://www.nationalpost.com/artslife.asp?f=000516/290395 Most of this piece just remakes the familiar point that it's possible to be a good (i.e. competent) artist without being a good (i.e. moral) human being. The examples are familiar too: Ernest Hemingway, Bertolt Brecht, Pablo Picasso. But toward the end, Fulford enters unfamiliar territory (unfamiliar to me, at any rate) to say interesting things about Malevich, Tatlin, and the other avant-gardists who briefly created an art for the Russian Revolution. I'd especially recommend that last part of the article to anyone who has read T.J. Clark's _Farewell to an Idea_ -- another book about painting and politics that probably has something to say to readers of Pound. Jonathan Morse