Re Pound's recantations: what are we to make of Pound's decision months before his death to issue his Selected Prose, which contains some of the most anti-semitic statements of his career? Was he re-authorizing them? Probably not. Was he trying to put them in print so that his readers would have a representative idea of his work, for good and bad? Also, does the statement about usury being a symptom rather than a cause, the cause being avarice, strike anyone as being equally simple-minded, if not as overtly prejudiced? Moreover, this statement supposedly recanting anti-semitism revives the oldest anti-semitic figure of them all: disease, diagnosis, and cure. Are we ourselves on our way to treating Pound's anti-semitism as symptom? So what was the disease? Can this metaphor really lead us any place where Pound didn't already go? Is Pearlman saying depression is a cure for anti-semitism? (Since asking so many questions without risking answers is perhaps unfair, I'll go out on a limb and say that I think that Pound's ideas about Jews were intimately linked with his ideas about language and representation in general. If this is so, it is or was impossible to separate, remove, or cure Pound of anti-semitism--it was a form of anti-semantism. Finally, whether or not there was a recanting at the end, there was certainly some recanto-ing (sorry, couldn't resist the pun). This by way of challenging Daniel Pearlman's assertion that Pound added nothing to the Cantos after 1960. There was plenty of new material in the 1960s, and even changing and re-arranging endings counts. Stoichieff's book on this is excellent. Jonathan Gill Columbia University