My dear Stoner James, all this discussion has become a HUGE mess. First, words like “modernism” or “truth” have no meaning outside academic brainwash. Second, Pound’s greatness (or not) is no issue for people who have not one hundred years in the least and no masterpiece in his/her curriculum — we’ll be only speculating about “I think”, or “he is” and “he is not”, childishly. If people on lists don’t ever discuss Pound’s poetics, we can’t simply assume: “Well, he has only politics, then.” mostpeople don’t know what poetry is about. Unhappily, poetry has become — Oh my God, Oh no, no — elitistic. Why? Bad education, too much crap everywhere, critics, curators, jornalists, etc. Carelessness. If people are so damm iggurunt that they runaway from Pound’s poetry because of its “allusiveness”, we can only say: “it’s a shame”, or “I’m really sorry for you”, or yet “may you try it another time”. If people drop things cause things are difficult, let everybody with their everyday TV shows. Let everything be written as Emerson’s exercises. Why discussing this tiny little elitistic bore, poetry? Pound is dead, Ovid has gone to Orcus, Homer to Elysium, Chaucer is dede, Dante è morto, finito, they’re so allusive, distant, we’re so sick & tired. Let’s pretend we’re already dead too. As Pound (Florent Chréstien, trd.) said “after death there comes no other calamity”. Remember: only if we’re so careless. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com