Poets have held differing opinions on Bob Dylan for awhile now. In Ezra Pound: The Voice of Silence, Alan Levy wrote that when Allen Ginsberg and his entourage visited Italy during the late ‘60s, they were “horrified” to learn that Pound had never heard of Dylan. In the words of Olga Rudge, Ginsberg “covered that gap in Ezra’s education by sending him several Dylan records, which Ezra didn’t enjoy at all.” Ironically, the first time I ever heard of Pound was through "Desolation Row."
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