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[...]added Pound, it had been “the MAIN reason fer the mag.” The last suggestion was not entirely unjust. Since the anonymous publication of Memoirs of Other Fronts in 1932, Rodker had primarily worked as a publisher and translator. [...]their value to us is that of whatever the cost to themselves, they showed the rest of humanity that we could dispense with the taboos, the dark places of the soul: they opened them to the light & the air. The lecture is useful for contextualizing the physiological account of creating poetry that appears in Rodker’s preface to his 1930 Collected Poems, where it stems from “a particular concentration”: if the release of poetry is a way to keep pressure at safe levels inside the poet’s system, that release is part of a larger self-regulation in society.11 Implicit in this formulation is that, while the significant poets might be those who set themselves against society, that opposition obscures their actual function within society. The metaphor of a “safety-valve” used in “Liberating Forces” may have been taken from The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) and the extension from individual physiology to the social system recalls the method of Civilization and its Discontents (1930).12 However, we can chart differences from Freud as well as debts in Rodker’s approach.