[lbo-talk] How Politics Ruined My Life: Was Fuck Hope

[Chris Doss]

It's irrelevant. A beautiful desk (theoretically) can have Nazi swastikas as a design element (as Riefensthal's rather gorgeous films in fact do). It's still beautiful. Do Pound's politics make his poems any less beautiful, or Wagner's his music? Of course not. It's silly.

--- On Wed, 1/14/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> 
> Well I dunno about that. Works of art are filled with
> politics - you can't miss it in Stevens or Pound (or
> Eliot or...).
> 
> Doug
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