SOURCE: North, Michael. “Where Memory Faileth: Forgetfulness and a Poem Including History.” In Ezra Pound: The Legacy of Kulchur, edited by Marcel Smith and William A. Ulmer, pp. 145-65. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988.
In the following essay, North notes the many instances where Pound's historical and factual memory seems to fail him, but believes that for him it was a tool he used in his attempts to define culture.
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