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It’s always someone with a PhD from an Ivy saying something like “especially in an age when a college degree is becoming a certificate of illiteracy.”

It does seem to me that Davenport’s admiration of Pound (the poet) makes him maybe a bit too much of an apologist for Pound (the man). I like the Cantos as much as the next guy with a masters in comp lit but cmon. Seems to fall into the same trap Kenner often did, which is apparently seeing Pound’s very real fascism as unworthy of material identification

On Marianne Moore: “Behind her work is a love of—it is unfair to have to speak for her—things cunningly made: for one, armored anteaters, and for another, Egyptian pulled glass bottles. Things that seem to defy description but which her art labors well to describe well: icosaspheres and paper nautiluses.”

Zukofsky essay is incredible