Charles Bernstein has written an interesting article in Poetics which is called - Pounding Pound's Fascism. And the canadian novelist Timothy Findly has written a novel named Famous Last Words, an original and striking fictionlization of the problem . A whole context of fantasy and reality are woven together. But I have never been offended by the passage in one of the Pisan Cantos wherein the narrator seems to lament the death of Mussolini and Clara. What is striking is how much the poet creates a sentiment in 'himself' of grief out of which I am as reader critically distant. How could it be other wise for any person who knows how brutal Mussolini was? But again, the passage of time will neutralize more and more as time passes these 'characters.' That is Pound's failure from my pointof view. He does not nor did he have any desire to make Mussolini and Clara look bad. Which is what Mussolini was, a brutal tyrant. This to me represents the limits of Pound's art - his love for the fascists made it impossible for him to make them as they were which was brutal. Unlike Shakespeare and Richard the 3rd. who are brutal as we see them and remain so as textual figures.