Ezra Pound

There's a place of trees gray with lichen,


I have walked there thinking of old days



Above are from Ezra Pound, and the scene reminds me of my walk to Eric Bentley's suites in July 2004 by the Hudson through St Joan Park, Riverside Drive. Pound didn't like NYC but loved living in Italy instead, till his death in 1973, outliving all his contemporaries. During his stay at St Elizabeth clinic, he was visited by ee cummings, TS Eliot and Hugh Kenner."Get to know the greats of your generation," Pound once advised a protegee. After all, what's behind the Pound Fascist syndrome? But let's not forget that Shaw, a nice gentle meek man who wouldn't raise a hand to kill a mouse, had a Stalinist syndrome!