...or if one simply wanted to hear what anti-intellectual panic sounded like, or how it might lead a managerial class volkspoet to insult poetry at the same time he insulted all Japanese people, one could have attended the reading by Ted Kooser at the University of California, Davis, last Thursday, when he said, claiming to be quoting Karl Schapiro (as if that shored up the position, or made it not his own):
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs that fell on American poetry were Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot.