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I thought fuck-up was a prime requirement for being an artist. Flippancy aside, does an artist's CV really affect the way one reads their work? What accommodation does one make in dealing with an "unpleasant" poet? On a side-note, does Pound's anti-semitism actually make it to his work? I've read that a case can be made for Wagner's anti-semitism being embedded in his operas, each a propagandist piece but Pound? I suppose as well that we could sit pretty and deny that anti-semitism (or whatever nastiness you care to mention) does not exist. Baraki's words may not be to our taste, still, they deserve an hearing as much as the next poet's. I do not validate his anti-semitism (which I'm failing to spell, sadly), but to look at whatever nightmare he has in the face, acknowledge it's existence, see if it is reflected within and try and find a way out. Roger On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Baraka vs Pound: who's the mostest anti-semitic? > > I guess a poet can be good *and* a fuck-up? > > Dominic > -- My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too" The Go-Betweens