To Jonathon Morse: I would like to thank you for the nine points you succinctly make. There appears to be difficulty in accepting Pound's racism, and the effects of racism, without feeling that his stature as a major poet of the twentieth century is diminished. But, frankly, should we not expect the work of a major poet of this era to have a relation to racism, war, economic organization and injustice? And, potentially at least, is not the poet who seeks historical justifications of his or her position not the more interesting? Is that not the Cantos? It's not that the major poets are right. (Does anyone seriously think Homer or Milton were "right"?) It is that their work, in important respects, represents the complexities and desires of their age, while resonating in its craft and "voice". Michael