Re Pound, Ginsberg, and apologies: I find Pound's remarks to Ginsberg most unsatisfactory. There's not much sorrow, regret, or responsibility in the statement. I pressed Ginsberg on this in person several years before his death but never prevailed--Ginsberg wasn't very open to new interpretations of the conversation. Then again, perhaps, Ginsberg felt a certain sympathy with an aged poet. Also, let's not forget the apology--an apologia, really, and a very revealing one--in the preface to Selected Prose, written months before Pound's death, as a way of explaining the decision to include in that volume a kind of greatest hits of Pound's intolerance. Jonathan Gill Columbia University