In the Sunday Aug. 29 Book World section of the Washington Post (supposedly the second 'best' newspaper in the country) Carolyn See published a piece describing her accompaniment of William Espey to visit Mary de Rachewiltz at Schloss Brunnenberg. In the course of her one page report See says idiotic things, damns with shallow praise, and apparently cribs off Espey for a bare bones Pound chronology, but time here only allows me to recount her most insipid paragraph. See states, "Ezra Pound. Mary's father. For years one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, and now that T.S Eliot's stock is going down, maybe the greatest. On the other hand, who now reads the Cantos? Who now cares to decipher the dense, encoded, atonal poetry that changes languages - English, Latin, Greek, Chinese - as whimsically as a disaffected teenager pressing the TV remote." Apparently it has never occurred to the shallow Ms. See to consult the numerous critical works (published by many on this list) that would relieve her of the responsibility of approaching "the greatest poet of the 20th century" head on. I've mentioned to the Post on several occasions when they have slandered E.P. that he is the number one selling poet in my bookstore and among the best understood because there is much there worth understanding as opposed to the 'accessible' navel pickers the Post prefers e.g. Robert Hass' weekly poetry box. Most of the rest of the article just suffers from the air-headed tone of standard journalese.- Carlo Parcelli If you would like to tell Ms. See who reads E.P. write: Book World Nina King editor and/or Carlyn See Washington Post 1150 15th St. NW Washington, DC 20071 or contact them online. "disaffected teenager". Give me a break.