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| | American Poetry Review, The: Elitism, populism, laureates, and free speech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | One was the gathering of many recipients of the Bollingen Prize in poetry, at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and the other was the Dodge Poetry Festival in Waterloo, New Jersey. |
 | | Pound, at the time he received the Bollingen, was incarcerated at St Elizabeth's, a mental hospital in Washington, where he was sent after being declared mentally incompetent to stand trial on nineteen charges of treason, occasioned by Pound's radio broadcasts in Italy in support of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in World War II. |
 | | The panels of Bollingen recipients on traditions in American poetry and the craft of poetry today were largely intellectually vacuous, exhausted, narcissistic, and self-congratulatory. |
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