Ezra Pound
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2024 1:01 am
Douglas Mercer
August 3 2024
The incomparably great Ezra Pound is a hero who went the final length. Both sides of Pound’s family came to America in the 17th century so he was of the oldest stock of our people. By 1925 he was the very heart of European culture, acknowledged by everyone as the great mind of Modernism with his exhortation to “make it new.” Yet though his spirit was sailing to the edges of the future it did not blind him as to the past, and when he saw the wicked, usurious, rank, insipid and cheap world the Jews were creating (what another noble anti-Semite T.S. Eliot called the twittering world) he stood on the barricades like the Knights of old and put his life on the line. He went on Italian radio and he attacked the United States, Roosevelt, Roosevelt's family, Churchill, and the Jews. He praised Hitler, recommended eugenics to conserve the best of the race, and referred to Jews as filth. After the final tragedy the Americans put him in a 6 foot by 6 foot cage in the searing Italian heat and kept him awake at night by floodlights. When they removed him he was delirious and they could call him “mad.” There was no way the Americans were going to give the most eloquent man on the planet a treason trial where his fellow countrymen would be forced to hear the truth unvarnished truth so they locked him up in St. Elizabeth’s, safely labeled “insane.” They say when he went back to Italy in 1958 when he stepped onto land he gave a Roman salute, and may all of us do the same in his memory and for the honor of our people.
August 3 2024
The incomparably great Ezra Pound is a hero who went the final length. Both sides of Pound’s family came to America in the 17th century so he was of the oldest stock of our people. By 1925 he was the very heart of European culture, acknowledged by everyone as the great mind of Modernism with his exhortation to “make it new.” Yet though his spirit was sailing to the edges of the future it did not blind him as to the past, and when he saw the wicked, usurious, rank, insipid and cheap world the Jews were creating (what another noble anti-Semite T.S. Eliot called the twittering world) he stood on the barricades like the Knights of old and put his life on the line. He went on Italian radio and he attacked the United States, Roosevelt, Roosevelt's family, Churchill, and the Jews. He praised Hitler, recommended eugenics to conserve the best of the race, and referred to Jews as filth. After the final tragedy the Americans put him in a 6 foot by 6 foot cage in the searing Italian heat and kept him awake at night by floodlights. When they removed him he was delirious and they could call him “mad.” There was no way the Americans were going to give the most eloquent man on the planet a treason trial where his fellow countrymen would be forced to hear the truth unvarnished truth so they locked him up in St. Elizabeth’s, safely labeled “insane.” They say when he went back to Italy in 1958 when he stepped onto land he gave a Roman salute, and may all of us do the same in his memory and for the honor of our people.
