Hi all, I don't think it's too far of a stretch to read Moyer's "parody" as implicating its reader in anti-Semitic discourse, regardless of whether or not one agrees with Dan Pearlman. I don't mind in the least rousing myself from lurkerdom to address this issue, either, since it is of deep concern to Dan Pearlman. I'm glad I caught the email, which was by sheer accident (am completely out of the loop, not having read posts on this listserv since early September). Browning's lines invoke Nature, the natural world, a natural order. Charles Moyer's "parody" reverses the idea of a natural order, with the idea of a social order. More specifically, the implication - here lies the force of the parody - is that this is a world fallen from grace, a social dis-order represented by the Jew. Moyer transports us to contemporary US of A politics. Instead of "God," we have Greenspan in his office regulating finance. Instead of "dew," a "pure" emanation from Nature after night and after sleep, suggesting refreshment, rejuvenation, etc., we have "Jew-pearled." Etc. Given that Charles Moyer chooses to post such a parody on a Pound listserv, a listserv whose members one would think would be extra-sensitive to ways that texts are, or become, racialized, only confirms, to his severe discredit, the implication of anti-Semitic discourse that goes unchallenged in his parody. Imagine if he had posted his poem to a Browning listserv. There it would appear, I think, as palpably incongruous, as drawing (perhaps disingenuously, perhaps naively, etc.) on a negative history of racialization of the Jew. By a curious denial, however, or by habit, or by sleepy-headedness, Charles Moyer's post seems acceptable, "in tune" with Pound, here on the Pound listserv. Yes, it is in tune with Pound. It is in tune with his legacy of anti-Semitism. Let me just preemptively add as a last comment that while I am compelled to respond directly and seriously to Dan Pearlman's request, I am not in the least inclined to respond to any future post from Charles Moyer that is addressed to me -- whether it is in agreement or disagreement with what I have said here regarding his poem. I have written this email about Charles Moyer's poem for Dan Pearlman on the E-Pound listserv. Best wishes, Louis Cabri