Dear Scott,
Hill & Pound--quite an interesting intuition. Maybe you know this: Hill
wrote a rather brilliant--and tortuous--essay on Pound and other matters,
"Our Word is Our Bond," in The Lords of Limit. He measures EP against EP's
own phrase--I'm in Colorado, away from my books, so this won't be
accurate--"All values come from our judicial sentences." As I remember, I
used this in my essay "Utopocalyptics" in The Objectivist Nexus, a
collection of essays on the Objectivist poets edited by Peter Quartermain
and Rachel Blau DuPlessis by many different writers which touches on
politics and poetry in a quite a number of places.
And let's not forget Pound's beautiful insect poetry in the Cantos from the
wasps in Pisa to the "ant is a centaur. Makes you wonder who are greater
pet lovers, communists or fascists, but, please list members, let's not get
started on this.
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