He turns a poet hostile

GORE pornographer and hypocrite Eli Roth blames the appetite for his money-making celebrations of sadism on the war’s carnage and Abu Ghraib (“A Queasy-Does-It Guy,” June 3). And all the while he both feeds and feeds off of the same impulses that resulted in the Abu Ghraib terrors, the same impulses that drive insurgents who kidnap soldiers, then dump their tortured bodies where they can be found by their comrades. He’s not really a product of our times -- jackals like this have been around forever.

SUZANNE LUMMIS

Los Angeles

Lummis is a poet, a teacher at UCLA Extension and director of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival.