@MattZeitlin @dylanmatt @yeselson Funnily enough I was just re-reading Pound's Canto 73, his most politically despicable work.
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@HeerJeet@MattZeitlin@dylanmatt Imagine a poetry award generating a major controversy. Those days are gone.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@yeselson@MattZeitlin@dylanmatt Well, Amiri Baraka, who just died, generated his share of controversy.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@HeerJeet@yeselson@MattZeitlin@dylanmatt And then there's Wallace Stevens' "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery"2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@DougHenwood@HeerJeet@MattZeitlin@dylanmatt Don't know it. Is it as bad as it sounds?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@yeselson@DougHenwood@MattZeitlin@dylanmatt Stevens also referred to Gwendolyn Brooks as a "coon"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@yeselson@MattZeitlin@dylanmatt he was something of a reactionary, though not as bad as Eliot or Pound5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@DougHenwood@HeerJeet@MattZeitlin@dylanmatt They'retough to beat in reactionary modernist sweepstakes, although a few others up there too2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@yeselson@DougHenwood@MattZeitlin@dylanmatt Pound's Canto 73 is really the nadir of reactionary modernism: http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/kmko/03/ka_mate03_ross.asp …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@HeerJeet@yeselson@DougHenwood@MattZeitlin@dylanmatt Right up there with all the Mussolini-loving New Dealers.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@ThaddeusRussell No, read the poem. It's quite a bit worse than the standard 1920s & early 1930s celebrations of Mussolini.
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