A quote from Louis Zukofksy: "The great poet is implicitly a good critic of poetry." That doesn't overstate the case by any means, and doesn't imply the opposite. Even in the case of Pound, the limitations of his criticism are intimately related to the limitations of the poetry itself. Criticism is sorely needed. I can't wait to see Jordan's review of the BAP 2003 on the Constant Critic.