@DougHenwood @HeerJeet Stevens was not a rightwing crackpot. he was just a Republican. Pound was a fascist and anti=semite, & proud of it
@KathaPollitt @DougHenwood Supposedly Stevens said "who let the coon in?" when Gwendolyn Brooks came into a poetry event.
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@HeerJeet@KathaPollitt I don't think "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery" would cut it these days. -
@DougHenwood@KathaPollitt No. What makes the Brooks story shocking is that Stevens was such a civilized poet.
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