One important thing about.Ezra.Pound. is. he shows demarcation between USA far right & European fascism is artificial. Not an accident he went from pro-Mussolini 1920-1940s to supporting USA KKK and White Citizens Council types in 1950s.
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Expound?
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Cites would be nice...
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Life mantra: Always be better than Ezra.
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Yeats offered the excuse, when asked about writing a marching song for Irish fascists ("What's equality? Muck in the yard!"), that it wasn't a good song to march to. If Pound had stuck to verse, he'd look less of a shithead.
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It seems unlikely that a fascist poet wasn't also writing poetry for facsists.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/09/the-pound-error …
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modern violent militants. Some of his supporters in 1950s went on to do racist and anti-government violence
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I knew that. I still plan to invite him to my next dinner party.
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What new information did you get?
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Alec Marsh's book on John Kasper & Ezra Pound. About how Pound supported Kasper's pro-segregationist activities in 1950s. Kasper stirring up riots & might have been responsible for some school & church fires.
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