Ezra Pound famously wrote a book on politics, titled Jefferson and/or Mussolini. This having been published in 1935, he’s referring to Thomas Jefferson, rather than the Jeffersons, though, uh: Anyway, the two poets I’ve long thought would make great protagonists for some kind of fantasy novel are Rilke — mainly, in the light of his trek through Russia — and Pound, in terms of his insane life, his insane poetry, and what I vaguely sensed was an occult undercurrent in The Cantos. Of course, my sense of how each figure would be best handled has diverged: Rilke, I always though, …