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The Mystery of Oppen

This week I must say I was particularly fascinated with the simultaneously revealing and befuddling poems of George Oppen.  Oppen was the poster-child of what came to be known as the “Objectivist” school of poetry, which has been categorized by a lack of … Continue reading

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“the United States that coughs all night and won’t let us sleep”

Channeling Anarchy after Whitman Poets to Come “Arouse! for you must justify me.” “One’s-Self I sing, a simple separate person,/ yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.” One’s Self I Sing “A new race copiously appears, with resolute tread, … Continue reading

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Ginsberg’s Sunflowers

Allen Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra” is definitely a poem of crisis and recovery. Ginsberg’s sunflower suggests an America that has been tarnished and polluted by the carelessness of modern society. In observing the “dead gray shadow” that is the sunflower Ginsberg … Continue reading

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