7. Pound's disciple Kasper, in particular, was a violent agitator, responding to the desegregation push by fomenting riots & also working with KKK types who dynamited schools and synagogues.
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18. Kenner was a brilliant critic & Pound's best advocate, but I think the new scholarship (by Alec Marsh & others) casts doubt on a central claim. Pound's fascism was not just a matter of defeated European movement but also a still living American one.
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19. In Italy today, there is a neofascist group called CasaPound. The members call themselves ragazzi di Ezra: Ezra’s boys (not related to Vox). None of this is dead & over.
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20. If I were truly on the ball, I could've worked in Robert Anton Wilson (Pounder lover, Kenner correspondent & author of the Illumantus books).
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21. If I were also on the case, I would have brought in James Jesus Angleton (Pound admirer, CIA counter-intelligence expert, the man who dropped the ball on Oswald, torturer of many Soviet defectors). https://twitter.com/TCleveland4Real/status/1110368215979474946 …
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22. Anyways, if you want to read more about the cultural politics of the Pound era, here's an essay I did on Hugh Kenner & Guy Davenport. It's one of the best things I've written:https://newrepublic.com/article/153244/hugh-kenner-guy-davenport-letters-unlikely-literary-friendship …
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