The beauty of poetry

The dope on British poet Tom Paulin, from the Guardian (via Sullivan):

Among other things, he opined that the US-born Jewish settlers should be shot dead. “They are Nazis, racists,” he said, adding – unnecessarily, you might argue – “I feel nothing but hatred for them.” He also pronounced that the state of Israel had no right to exist, that Tony Blair’s government was “Zionist”, and that the suicide bombers were an expression of “deep injustice and tragedy”.

Paulin will be at Harvard on Thursday.