Pound could be quite apologetic. In '68 he was so to me, at my first meeting with him in Sant'Ambrogio, when he said (words very close to this; I'd have to check my diaries), regarding the Cantos, "I failed to pay sufficient attention to the Hebraic element in history." ==DP At 09:31 AM 02/17/2001 -0500, you wrote: >In a message dated 2/17/01 9:01:56 AM, [log in to unmask] writes: > ><< What possible reason would Ginsberg have had to lie about this? Or is this >just to keep up the constantly chipping paint job on Ezra? >> > >I didn't say he lied. I simply report that Forrest Read didn't believe EP >said that. Unfortunately, Read is no longer around to explain his disbelief. > If I had to speculate as to why AG would make up this story (if, in fact, he >did) I would guess that he thought it might put into the great poet's legacy >a way for younger poets to embrace him whole. I don't know. From what I >remember of Read, his Pound would not apologize, such apology being an >admission of guilt, sort of like a plea bargain. I think Read thought the >telling word was 'suburban', as this seemed to reduce the grotesque sickness >of anti-semitism to a kind of bland snobbery, a reduction neither he (Read) >nor Pound would accept. Again, I don't know. >Jay Anania =============================================================== HOME: OFFICE: Dan Pearlman Department of English 102 Blackstone Blvd. #5 University of Rhode Island Providence, RI 02906 Kingston, RI 02881 Tel.: 401 453-3027 Tel.: 401 874-4659 Fax: (253) 681-8518 email: [log in to unmask] Director, Council for the Literature of the Fantastic: http://www.uri.edu/artsci/english/clf/ My new fiction collection, THE BEST-KNOWN MAN IN THE WORLD AND OTHER MISFITS, may be previewed at http://www.aardwolf.bigstep.com/homepage.html