Hospitalized boxer in critical condition after Montreal GYM gala KO

Paramedics fear for 18-year-old boxer's life

Marie-Pier Houle ends her first fight in 10 months with a knockout. (Radio-Canada)

Montreal's GYM Gala took a dramatic turn Saturday when Mexican boxer Jeanette Zacarias Zapata left the stadium in an ambulance, after a resounding knockout.

Marie-Pier Houle knocked out Zapata, 18, at the end of the fourth round of a fight that was supposed to last six.

Zapata was transported to hospital in critical condition, according to René Durand, a spokesperson for Urgences Santé.

"We fear for her life," Durand said.

The international boxing event at the IGA stadium in Jarry Park featured eight fights on Aug. 28.

Paramedics on-site and a doctor assigned to the boxing event took care of Zapata who went into convulsions.

'Opening the machine'

In her first match in 10 months, Houle showed new skills, and uncharacteristic punching power to cut the fight short.

Despite her victory, she said was more concerned for her opponent, who spent minutes lying unconscious in the ring.

Trigger Warning | Boxer in critical condition after suffering knockout in Montreal bout:

Auden on No-Platforming Pound

Edward Mendelson

In 1945, when Bennett Cerf of Random House was preparing An Anthology of Famous English and American Poetry, he omitted twelve early poems by Ezra Pound included in a 1927 anthology on which the new book had been based. W.H. Auden, one of Cerf’s authors, wrote Cerf some letters about this that may still be clarifying today.

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In 1945, when Bennett Cerf of Random House was preparing to send to the printer An Anthology of Famous English and American Poetry, edited by William Rose Benét and Conrad Aiken for the Modern Library series, he omitted twelve early poems by Ezra Pound that Aiken had included in a 1927 anthology on which the new book had been based. In place of the poems, a note explained that, over Aiken’s protest, the publishers “flatly refused at this time to include a single line of Mr. Ezra Pound. This is a statement that the publishers are not only willing but delighted to print.”

In the years since Pound wrote those poems,

he had become notorious for his fascist politics, florid anti-Semitism and racism, and hero-worshipping praise for Hitler and Mussolini. He stayed in Italy during the war, insisting on making radio broadcasts to American troops, urging them to drop their weapons and stop fighting on behalf of Jews and everyone else whom Pound

hated. For these broadcasts, he was arrested after the war and charged with treason against the United States. At the end of 1945, he was awaiting trial in Washington, D.C.

In the eyes of many writers at the time, Cerf’s refusal to reprint Pound’s poems adopted the same logic that the Nazis had used when burning books by Jews and leftists. In January 1946, a few weeks after the

anthology appeared, the critic of the New York Herald Tribune, Lewis Gannett, criticized Cerf’s decision in his widely read column, Cerf rep

lied, in a letter that Gannett printed: “Pound, by his deliberate and consistent actions over a long period of years, sacrificed any claims, in my opinion, either to the title ‘poet’ or the title of ‘American.’” Cerf continued, “Damn it, Lewis, this war is not over. The same ideology that caused it… is still too prevalent in the world. Every time you parade the work of a man who represents such ideas, especial

ly while he still lives, you are in a sense glorifying him, and giving tacit approval to his point of view.” Cerf wrote that his partners Donald Klopfer and Robert Haas “firmly agree on this point.”

The controversy spilled into national magazines, and Cerf met with both wide support and wide disagreement. Two months later, under pressure from writers he valued, especially Henry Steele Commager and Max Lerner, Cerf reversed his decision, and agreed to print the poems in future printings of the anthology. But he continued to insist that he h

ad been right the first time

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All of which is very intersting and no problem with that France had Celine and others who were tempted by the right wing facicst who seemed to be anyhow but more apt to say they were

fallen into the right wing racist delirium oof the unconscious pole of paranoid reactionaries

as much or less than or equal to those on the left

like Neruda to name the most famous and who won I believe Noble peace prize for literartue

he was a Stalinist

supported the Gulag never denounced itor wrote anyhting critical of to my knowledged

nor did many of the thyouysands of supporters of Stalinism

stop themselves getting prizes or being published

________________ SO Ezra Pound had to be declared mad, crazy insane

that whole war was Insane Dropping an Atomic Bomb was Insane

killing 25 million in USSr durring the enitre ww2 was in sane

the sughter of the jews was Insane

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Big Eyed Beans From Venus (Live)

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Hunter S Thompson was an all around outstanding journalist and author. I've not read a lot of his books, but I do remember reading parts of the one about Hell's Angels and Fear and Loathing on the campaign trail (Did you see Apocalypse Now? Do you remember Dennis Hopper playing the zany journalist? it just occurred to me it could be he was modeled on Hunter Thompson_ gonzo!~) . In his later years he became an alcoholic like us but he never was able to recover. I remember hearing he had taken his own life. I was sad then and was not sure why__ but later realized it was because he was such a larger than life figure. He represented something to me which I wasn't even aware of. Freedom of thought and writing maybe or that independent spirit of anarchism, or egalitarianism , and writing. I didn't know much of his personal life really and was surprised finding he had taken his own life. The Wikipedia article about him strikes me as pretty good.

I can think of all kinds of books to recommend but I'm not sure which area of philosophy to pick. You know in school they start way back with Plato and a good anthology of his work would give you a view of his ideas. But he's really not the only one, and there were others before him and at the same time . So instead of being academic about it, which I'm not anyway, I'll just suggest to you what I did. I just read all kinds of books of philosophy and kept going through them until I found the ones which I liked. Then I'd read all of, (not always but often) the work of theirs I could get a hold of. And I'd go along like for a while until I found other thinkers. And I'd be making connections of their ideas and my own and my own experience.

For all sorts of reasons I started reading Jean Paul Sartre who was the great French atheist thinker of the 20th century __existentialism His life long partner Simone DeBeauvoir was also an author; her most famous book is the Second Sex and that had a massive effect on feminism. From those two I branched out to other thinkers and I was also reading poetry of all kinds.He also wrote fiction his most well known being Nausea. His most famous book of philosophy is Being and Nothingness. I was just reading some of it today. I rely on translations for such dense ideas! And the translation by Hazel Barnes is widely respected. Germain Greer's Female Ennuch was important to me_ she later wrote books on Culture, Shakespeare and the body,... there were other feminists authors whose names escape me. More recently there is Camille Paglia who I love because really she's a literary thinker, eclectic and follows her own drummer! her own path fearlessly! (Sexual Personae is her best known bk) I don't think there is anyone who ever speaks faster than her. Virginia Woolf was not a philosopher but she is one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century and she is going to be around (in her books) I think for a long time! I also love Marjorie Perloff one of the smartest most sensitive American literary critics, she has more often than many and most, her fingers on the pulse of what is happening with poetry. Helen Vendler is another great American critic but I am not as familiar her work. Many of her lectures and Perloff's are on youtube. She's lovely and warm and loves poetry. Which I love so I love her. I also read tons of R.D. Laing the Scottish thinker and psychiatrist, esp. The Politics of Experience which made him famous .

I also spent years, I'd say, with painters of one sort and another and their world and their thinking had a big impact on my way of seeing things...

I love all of the Beat writers, women and men. Diana Deprima just died last fall I think and she was nearly a 100. Aweek ago Lawrence Ferlinghetti died at 101. He was a poet and publisher. City Lights Bookstore.

Ive spent more time talking about literary criticism and theory(than philosophy ) and of course reading poetry and fiction. (I went to university just after 10 years of being sober .Eventually and some years later after stops and starts...I became a doctoral student and wrote my ph.d thesis about 2 poems Paradise Lost and The Waste Land) . So all of the poets from Sappho to Loy to Eliot to Keats, Bronte, George Eliot, Woolf, to Homer to Sexton, Joyce Beckett, Pound, Atwood,To Birney to Gwedolyn MacEwen to almost anyone known or unknown.... A to Z and in any language I can read and or have read translations. All of it is good even the bad! To me it's a great living, breathing, vibrating community of the living and dead of writers famous poor and or rich middle and lower class, any color creed or gender any race even from another planet! I can hardly wait! spanning across all time and the universe... Literature was my higher power Bridget (I had amazing dreams, dreams about being inducted into the-land of poetry and I knew they were true and it was my destiny, a destiny of love and more and many sided ___ this was years before I came to AA) and to a large extent it still is.. Literature and Art..... when I say Higher Power, I mean it's something I love which is obviously larger and greater than me but which I am a part of and feel I belong in...I belong to it, and am of it, it is my home Because if nothing else it's about creating. There are hundreds, no thousands of poets in your country. The United States has more poetry and poets I think than any country in the world! Some would say it's a function of population yes, fair enough but there's more to it than that. it's because the country has a poetic existence! it goes back to Whitman and Emily Dickinson and earlier and through the songs and to Dylan, Baez, Mitchell, Guthrie, and others the music the heritage is very rich.. Greil Marcus has written about this..and .. and music. Do you know that on the internet the last that I checked there about 500 million poems! That's half a billion. That's a good chunk of the population of the earth! The world is producing more poetry and thought than ever! So why is it so fucked up? Well we can talk about that in another letter. But yes the ISMS! I call them aliens from another planet !hahhahah

Back to philosophers.... At one point I read nearly all of Nietzsche and that shook me up for a good long while his ideas haunted me for years and until Iwas able to make them my own and leave the rest aside.... But Sartre aside, the thinkers who influenced my thinking, my sobriety and my work, are Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. I read them always and have about 6 blogs dedicated to their work in one form or another. When I did my ph.d their ideas were what I used to frame my own intuitions. I was writing about Paradise Lost(John Milton) and The Waste Land(Eliot) and did a comparison between these two very different poems. Their ideas anchored my own. I can't even begin to explain their ideas or this email will become a book! If you want to read any of their books, I recommend One Thousand Plateaus. It's massive and wonderful. There are so many more things to say, but Ill stop for now!

What a combination of things I've answered you. I hope you grasp the flow of it and realize I'm not academic at all .. I 'm reall an artist and even when I did do that ph.d. it was more of an artistic project than a strictly literary critical one and not academic in the proper sense of the word at all.

And you, what you are planning to write? I gathered you are interested in writing of one kind or another.

Anyhow, have a good day and I wish lots of sobriety to go your way