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