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For the Love of

‘You’ve got the whole world in your hands . . .’

(Mastercard Visa ad campaign, 1993)

Ezra Pound muttered across a dinner table or in print that the two great topics of poetry are God and Money—two items seldom lacking from the Baxterian agenda, but two topics (one he believed in, one he heaped scorn upon) not really given much space in current discussion of poetry.