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Antisemitism runs through many of Pound's later Cantos, not so much in explicit insults directed at Jews (though those exist) as in the pervasive cant of anti-usury ramblings. Wendy Flory, writing in *The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound*, counts only three instances of antisemitism in the Pisan Cantos, though she counts only direct insults, not passages in which anti-Jewish sentiments are merely assumed. She is also careful to couch Pound's antisemitism in terms of psychosis. jd On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > -- Joseph Duemer Professor of Humanities Clarkson University [sharpsand.net]