> However, I have very good information about the provenance of his >anti-Semitic attitudes, and they are exhaustively documented in a book now >under consideration. Weabster was not the source of those sentiments. i am very interested in anything you may have on this matter. i am writting an essay approaching pound from a political standpoint (as an anarchist). to me reading the cantos are a "what not to do" book, when starting with the love and compassion pound had. the cantos show how a beautiful and feeling person can easily become neo-facist (even while insisting on human freedom) because of the intinsity of feeling (sort of a eric hoffer true believer sorta thing), with a bit of cultural bigotry thrown in at the base. anyway... jeff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only eyes in all heads to be looked out of -charles olson, from "letter 6" (of the maximus poems)