Charles Bernstein on Ezra Pound

"Pound's economic views became increasingy rabid over time. He associated Jews with money-lending and usury ( a common stereotype with genocidal implications), insisting that Jews, not being grounded in the land they own, contributed to a wasteland of modern fragmentation (an unintentionally ironic view for one of the greatest progenitors of modernist fragmentation in poetry and one who lived most of his life in exile)."

Paschen, Elise and Mosby, Rebekah Presson; editors. Poetry Speaks. Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath, Sourcebooks MediaFusion, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc., Naperville, IL, 2001, p. 76