I have been reading of Pound's interactions with the Jewish poets in his circle like Reznikoff, Oppen and especially Zukofsky who seemed able to believe the best in Pound even through some pretty disturbing remarks by Ezra in the letters between the two. Nothing worth quoting but all searchable if anyone is interested.
At times you feel its all in his economic fears, that for him the "evil" he raves against is about IDed by profession not biology but then some really creepy remark will peek out from under. Definitely a mind unhinged by the 40's.
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