@HeerJeet @DougHenwood dunno abt Stevens on Ethiopia & race but no comparison with EP, who was a fascist activist & obsessive anti-semite.
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@KathaPollitt@DougHenwood No question, Pound was in a league of his own in terms of sheer evil.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@KathaPollitt yeah, so we've got Stevens, regular Rep; Eliot, monarchist snob; and Pound, raving fascist1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @DougHenwood
@DougHenwood@KathaPollitt Marianne Moore was also a regular Republican. E.E. Cummins a bit of Tea party type. Among our best poets!2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@KathaPollitt compared with 19th century - had poetry become a reactionary form?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @DougHenwood
@DougHenwood@KathaPollitt But of course there was counter tradition of democratic poetry from Whitman to W.C. Williams.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@KathaPollitt Ginsberg. Rich. But I am so out of touch with poetry these days. Lamenting that lately.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@DougHenwood@HeerJeet women poets, Moore excepted were lefty -- Ruykeyser, many others. Men were lamenting loss of poetry's centrality...2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@KathaPollitt@DougHenwood Supposedly Stevens said "who let the coon in?" when Gwendolyn Brooks came into a poetry event.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@KathaPollitt I don't think "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery" would cut it these days.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@DougHenwood @KathaPollitt No. What makes the Brooks story shocking is that Stevens was such a civilized poet.
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