This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry

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Citations Gilgamesh papyrus / jungle sandhill: Zukofsky, "A"23, p. 539. Praise!.. gill.. gam .. mesh : Zukofsky, "A"23, p. 540. I outlived a flood : Zukofsky, "A" 23,p.543. Ain't pleasant to work at the compost: Lansing, "The Compost," Heavenly Tree, 158. The library { footnote } "Celestial Flowers of Glacier Park" : Lindsay, Going-to-the-Stars, 88-101. As things decay: Spicer, "After Lorca," Collected Books,34. go into all the places you're frightened of: Schwerner, "Tablet VIII," The Tablets, 29. Out there somewhere / a shrine for the old ones : Snyder, "Old Bones," Mountains and Rivers Without End, 10. Not one but many energies shape the field : Duncan, "Passages 33,"Ground Work, vol. 1:23. There is a mound in the poet's mind :Ammons, Garbage,20. heaven's fire :Johnson, RADIOS, book i. Selected Listings from the Western Carolina Telephone Company's Directory :Jonathan Williams, Blues & Ruets. Limits / are what any of us: Olson, Maximus Poems, vol 1:17. Generation somehow a man must lift himself: William Carlos Williams, Paterson, book 3,sect. 3,p. 135. as there is always / a thing he can do :Olson, "In Cold Hell, In Thicket," TheDistances, 27. he / is already also : Olson, "In Cold Hell, In Thicket," TheDistances, 31. Or, if it is me :Olson, "In Cold Hell, In Thicket," The Distances, 27. polls is / eyes: Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 1:26. Because of the agora America is : Olson, Maximus Poems, vol 1:62. The tropics, <& the trope Isolated person in Gloucester: Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 1:12. Thousands and thousands of miles hence :Whitman, "AThought of Columbus." as they are fed and grow, this nest: Olson, "The Kingfishers," The Distances, 6. To be in different states without a change : Olson, "The Kingfishers," The Distances,i 201 202 C I T A T I O N S (PAGES 26-30) Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil: Stevens, "The Comedian as the Letter C," The Palm at the End of the Mind, 58. It was a flourishing tropic he required : Stevens, "The Comedian as the Letter C," Palm, 65. the blissful liaison :Stevens, "The Comedian as the Letter C," Palm,64. the fecund minimum : Stevens, "The Comedian as the Letter C," Palm, 65. Nota: his soil is man's intelligence : Stevens, "The Comedian as the Letter C," Palm,66. A still new continent: Stevens, "The Comedian as the Letter C," Palm,66. the purpose of his pilgrimage : Stevens, "The Comedian asthe Letter C," Palm, 66-67. Beauty is natures coyn :Milton, Comus, lines 739-45. Green barbarism turning paradigm: Stevens, "The Comedian as the Letter C," Palm, 61. flourishing tropic : Stevens, "The Comedian as the Letter C," Palm, 6y. All din and gobble : Stevens, "The Comedian as the Letter C," Palm, 73. Delivered with a deluging onwardness: Stevens, "The Comedian asthe Letter C," Palm, 74. Making gulped potions : Stevens, "The Comedian as the Letter C," Palm, 75. the honey bearing chaos : Rexroth, "When We With Sappho," Collected Shorter Poems, 139. gigantic quavers of its voice : Stevens, "The Comedian as the Letter C," Palm, 63. connoisseur of elemental fate : Stevens, "The Comedian as the Letter C," Palm, 63. blissful liaison: Stevens, "The Comedian as the Letter C," Palm,64. The plum survives its poems: Stevens, "The Comedian as the Letter C," Palm, 70. The wheel survives the myths : Stevens, "The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man," Palm, 168. The wheel, the lever, the incline : Rexroth, "Gas or Novocain," Collected Shorter Poems, 151. Cinders bee-loud glade :Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," Collected Poems, 39. the movement of men wasto the west :Johnson, "When Men Will Lie Down as Gracefully & as Ripe," Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses, 44. In the machinery of injustice: Howe, "Thorow," Singularities, 49. They were sentenced to observe : Dorn, "The Slipping of the Wheel," Recollections of Gran Afacheria. understory of anotherword : Howe, "Thorow," Singularities, 50. the share of language is a yearning: Irby, "For Marcel Weinreich," manuscript. How long did it last, that Paradise?: Irby, "(After Sauer)" Catalpa, 84. one-armed explorer: Merwin, "The Gardens of Zuni," Carrier of Ladders, 49. the alien world : Duncan, "Up Rising," Bending theBow, 82. Here is a map of our country: Rich, "Atlas of the Difficult World," Atlas, 6. The magic we have : McCord, "A Day's Journey with Geoffrey Young," Fables & Transfigurations, 6. one's forced / considering America : Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 1:134—35. 7 years & you eld carry cinders in yr hand : Olson, Maximus Poems, vol 3:41. C I T A T I O N S (PAGES 31-35) 203 A noise in the head of the prince : Spicer, "The Holy Grail" ("Book of the Death of Arthur"), Collected Books, 213. where some outcast people find a place :Dorn, "Inauguration Poem #2," Collected Poems, 101. or of how we might / plead our case :Dorn, "ALetter, in the Meantime, Not to be Mailed, Tonight," Collected Poems, 99. disposal so complete : Dorn, "The Land Below," Collected Poems,68. how many waves / of hell and death: Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 3:120. 0 my people, where shall you find it: Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 1:2. in a society like America energy if it is not moral: Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 3:89. 1don't want to know: Rich, "Atlas of the Difficult World," Atlas, 4. The cars run in a void of utensils : Oppen, "Route," Collected Poems, 191. With tire song lulling like love: R. P. Warren, "Going West," New and Selected Poems, 93. And by this we are carried :Oppen, "Route," Collected Poems, 195. Strange to be here, strange for them also: Oppen, "Route," Collected Poems, 196. hygienic of / views not viable to this soil: Dorn, "Idaho Out," Collected Poems, 120. The dust of intolerable social conditions: Lamantia, "Ship of Seers," Meadowlark, 12. Grimed tributaries: Crane, "The Bridge [The River]," Complete Poems, 68. One can be looted, burned : Creeley, "One World," Mirrors, 16. How much of it is still true : Clarke, "Christmas Eve," In theAnalogy, 237. Total war / has been uninstructive : Dorn, "The North Atlantic Turbine," Collected Poems, 188. the gathered gestures of historic particulars : Irby, A Set, 4. We will produce no sane man again : Oppen, "Route," Collected Poems, 184. Vomito cogito This kind of speaking : DuPlessis, "Draft 19: Working Conditions," Drafts, 121. { footnote } the white-toothed black flag of Vomito Negro : Cesaire, "Gunnery Warning," Collected Poetry, 89. my total is ever lengthened : Cesaire, "Notebook of a Return to the Native Land," Collected Poetry, 79. and our limbs vainly disjointed :Cesaire, "Notebook of a Return to the Native Land," Collected Poetry, 65. And this land screamed for centuries that we are bestial brutes: Cesaire, "Notebook of a Return to the Native Land," Collected Poetry,61. Drunken start, drowned / Atlantean root: Mackey, "Out Island," School ofUdhra, yo. Whoever would not understand me : Cesaire, "Notebook of a Return to the Native Land," Collected Poetry, 45. But who misleads my voice?: Cesaire,"Notebook of a Return to the Native Land," Collected Poetry, 55. 204 C I T A T I O N S (PAGES 36-47) If your voice could crack :Rich, "Atlasof the Difficult World," Atlas, 18. anagrammatic / ythm, anagrammatic myth : Mackey, "Alphabet of Ahtt," Schoolof Udhra, 43—44. { footnote } To the outer / principalities of Onem: Mackey, "Song ofthe Andoumboulou: 20," Whatsaid Serif, zz. No one / has loved the west I came into :Dorn, "The Sense Comes Over Me ..." Collected Poems, 156. Only the Illegitimate are beautiful : Dorn, "The North Atlantic Turbine," Collected Poems, 179. expressing with broken // brain: W. C. Williams, "The pure products ofAmerica," Collected Poems, vol. 1:218. blows with her every skill: Rich, "Atlas of the Difficult World," Atlas, 23. Rolled a / joint with gunpowder: Mackey, "Degree Four," Schoolof Udhra, 33. THOSE WHO ARE BEAUTIFUL : Rothenberg, "Khurbn," Khurbn, 20. "practice your scream" I said :Rothenberg, "Khurbn," Khurbn, n. Where shall the scream stick?: Graham, "Manifest Destiny," Dream of the Unified Field, 185. Let a great pain come up into your legs : Rothenberg, "Khurbn," Khurbn, 33. Write this. We have burned all their villages: Palmer, "Sun," Sun, 83. That origin -which is act.. . that riddle 'which is aiae the pure form / Of the cutting edge :Rexroth, "The Phoenix and the Tortoise," Collected Longer Poems, 81. { footnote } gnostic import: Mackey, "Song of the Andoumboulou: 35," Whatsaid Serif, 108. The dead in via / in vita nuova :Olson, "La Preface," In Cold Hell, In Thicket, 9. Each word a / flash-pod correspondent: Sanders, "Hieroglyphs," Thirstingfor Peace,99. { footnote } "Books" "books ruined us": Notley, The Descent of Alette,70. as if our condition now is / hugely umbilical: Eshleman, "Permanent Shadow,"Hades in Manganese, 83. where the dead walked / and the living were made of cardboard :Pound, Cantos, no.CXV, P- 794The archaicand the old lore male dominion, gangrape: Rich, "The Spirit of Place," Wild Patience,45. There is no proposal the imagination cannot assimilate :Eshleman, "Liberation Footage," From Scratch, no. { footnote } Us critters: Snyder, "Old Woodrat's Stinking House," Mountains and Rivers Without End, 119. C I T A T I O N S (P A G E S 47~5 8) 2OJ Think of wings pushing through shoulders : Brandi, "This Language Isn't Speech," Heartbeat Geography, 177. The past is not a husk: Rich, "For Memory," Wild Patience, 22. oak powers renewing: Lamantia,"The Marco Polo Zone," Meadtrwlark, 43. Indian skin big masculine history / on tap : Waldrop, "Chapter XIII: Of the Weather," A Keyintothe Language of America, 28. Darkness is another kind of light: McCord, "The Rim of the Great Basin," Maps, n. what history is longing for: Irby, Antiphonal, i. for solitude and grieving: Irby, Antiphonal, 7. On the extremes! verge The road between Europe and Asia :Whitman, "Passage to India," no. 3. the earth to be spann'd :Whitman, "Passage to India," no. 2. His mother came to the laundry: Reznikoff, Testimony, vol. 1:210. you whose fine mouth : Spicer, "Some Notes on Whitman for AllenJoyce," OneNight Stand, 81. install'd amid the kitchen ware!: Whitman, "Song of the Exposition," no.3. Not to repel or destroy so much as to accept: Whitman, "Song of the Exposition," no. i. thy rapid patents :Whitman, "Song of the Exposition," no.8. wide geographies, manifold,different, distant: Whitman, "Song of the Exposition," no.8. Earth's modern wonder, history's seven outstripping: Whitman, "Song of the Exposition,' no. 5. this and these, America: Whitman, "Song of the Exposition," no.6. the joiner, he sees how they join: Whitman, "Song of the Answerer," no. i. Southward there I screaming: Whitman, "Our Old Feuillage." In Kanadian forests the moose :Whitman, "Our Old Feuillage." A / darkness there / like tar: Mackey,"Waters," Eroding Witness, 3. The rim, the sediment Now I am terrified at the Earth: Whitman, "This Compost," no.2. Whereto answering, the sea :Whitman, "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking." half in love with easeful Death : Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale." my dusky demon and brother: Whitman, "Out of the Cradle." husky pantings through clench'd teeth: Whitman, "Not Heaving from my Ribb'd Breast Only." 206 C I T A T I O N S (PAGES 58-62) Beautiful dripping fragments :Whitman, "Spontaneous Me." Love-thoughts, love-juice, love-odor: Whitman, "Spontaneous Me." The limpid liquid within the young man: Whitman, "Spontaneous Me." I too but signify at the utmost a little wash'd up drift : Whitman, "AsI Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life," no. 2. The waves of the sea fall through / Our each others : Rexroth, "Past and Future Turn About," Collected Shorter Poems, 171. Me and mine, loose windrows, little corpses : Whitman, "As I Ebb'd," no. 4. Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten :Whitman, "Song of the Open Road," no. y. Held by this electric self out of the pride :Whitman, "AsI Ebb'd," no.r. all the water and all the land of the globe :Whitman, "As I Ebb'd," no. i. Hissing melodious :Whitman, "Out of the Cradle." The rim, the sediment that stands for all: "Whitman, "AsI Ebb'd," no. i. Copulation is no more rank to me than death is :Whitman, "Song of Myself," no.24. forbidden voices / Voices of sexes and lusts: Whitman, "Song of Myself," no.24. The sea and a crescent strip of beach: Oppen, "Some San Francisco Poems," no. 3, Collected Poems, 217. Fascinated, my eyes reverting from the south :Whitman, "AsI Ebb'd," no. i. A cold wind chills the beach : Stevens, "The Auroras of Autumn," no. 2,Palm,308. the lines through these words: Palmer, "Sun," Sun, 78. The sum of all that will ever be deciphered : Ashbery, "Fragment," Double Dream of Spring, 94. where not a single single thing endures: Ammons, "Saliences," Collected Poems, yf. I allow myself eddies of meaning :Ammons, "Corson's Inlet," Collected Poems, 148. to fasten into order enlarging grasps of disorder : Ammons, "Corson's Inlet," Collected Poems, yi. an order held / in constant change: Ammons,"Corson's Inlet," Collected Poems, yo. the possibility of rule as the sum of rulelessness: Ammons, "Corson's Inlet," Collected Poems, yo. I've often said that a poem in becoming generates the laws : Ammons, "Essay on Poetics," Collected Poems, 315. real change occurs along the chromosomes : Ammons, "Essay on Poetics," Collected Poems, 316. What does not change/is the will to change : Olson, "The Kingfishers," TheDistances, y. we want to change without changing: Ammons, Sphere, 12. We change to keep all else the same : Roller, "We change . . ." Poemsfor theBlue Sky, 83. Watch out for unity as you age :Eshleman, "Yachats, the Shore," From Scratch, 72. I'm a little boy in my glandbox :Eshleman, "Yachats,the Shore," From Scratch, 72. Mallarme's throw still tumbling :Eshleman, "Yachats, the Shore," From Scratch, 72. 1 7 1 C I T A T I O N S ( P A G E S 64-72) 207 Necropoetics These things I would record : Duncan, "The Performance We Wait For," Opening of the Field, 57. runes upon the sand from sea-spume: Duncan, "Food for Fire, Food for Thought," Opening of the Field, 95. They are dead. That is they do not answer : Kelly, "Alchemical Journal," Alchemist to Mercury, 56. green kelp waves arms: Zukofsky, "A"22, p. 533. death also / can still propose the old labors: Creeley, "Heroes," Collected Poems, 192. white white white : Duncan, "A Storm of White" Opening of the Field, 74. Like the pieces of a totally unfinished puzzle : Spicer, "Heads of the Town" ("Textbook of Poetry"), Collected Books, ij6. you must excuse us if we scratch each other's / backs: Olson, "Letter for Melville 1951," The Distances, 47. The realized / is dung of the ground :Duncan, "Nor Is the Past Pure," Opening of the Field, 41. We have broken through into the meaning of the tomb :Ashbery, Three Poems,5. spelling light for hymn to day recast: Grenier, "Rose Appellate Project (Entwurf)," PhantomAnthems. To have the whole outline in mind :Ashbery, Three Poems,25. intimations of the secret Mover: Duncan, "Nor Is the Past Pure," Opening of the Field, 42. It is only the midden heap, Beauty: Duncan, "Nor Is the Past Pure," Opening of the Field, 43 "Cole's Island" : Olson, Maximus Poems, vol.3:69. The upshot is : Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 1:55. Diadem of fox teeth : Snyder, "Under the Hills Near the Morava River," Mountains and Rivers Without End, 96. A deer skull: McCord, "Signs and Gifts," The Fire Visions. a sheepskull forehead : Snyder, "Arctic Midnight Twilight," Mountains and Rivers Without End, 93. Muses'archetext And then went down to the ship :Pound, Cantos, no. I, p. 3. Off-shore, by islands hidden in the blood : Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 1:1. A / round of fiddles: Zukofsky, "A" i, p. i. He neigh ha lie low h'who : Zukofsky, "A" 15, p.359. Art is to show other people :Kelly,"Women of the Bois de Boulogne," Kill theMessenger, 62. Isolated person in Gloucester : Olson, "Letter 3,"Maximus Poems, vol. 1:12. 208 C I T A T I O N S (PAGES 72-82) The hand holds no chalk :Ashbery, "Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror," Self Portrait, 83. the voice is recognizable : Blaser, "Image-Nation," no. y, Holy Forest, 116. the language, older: Blaser, "Image-Nation," no. 10, Image-Nations,36. but language is other than ourselves : Blaser, "Image-Nation," no. 12, Image-Nations, 42. ecstatic / contorting / ofthe / soul: Grenier, "Easter Roses," Phantom Anthems. To begin a song: Zukofsky, "A" 12, p. 140. here is the table: Palmer, "BaudelaireSeries," Sun,11. B says, the real table does not exist: Palmer, "Sun," Sun, 66. through its drafts : Sobin, "Article of Faith," Breath's Burials,60. a draft, a stroke: DuPlessis, "Draft 4: In," Drafts, 25. An intake / of breath :Mackey,"Alphabetof Ahtt," School ofUdhra, 45-. the Muse / is the "fate" of the poem :Olson, "Prajna," Olson, no. 9, p. 42. A skin of mouths How can I leave you be in me :Charles Stein, "Pages from First Forest" Hat Rack Tree, 17. I attempt the discontinuities : Duncan, "The BreakingUp of Cold Clouds," Derivations, 91. Around my life / an animalpaces : Kelly, TheLoom, 393. what, anyway/ was that sticky infusion : Kinnell, "The Bear," Body Rags, 63. I, too, have eaten : Kinnell, Book ofNightmares, 29. My father... his / crowned eye : Duncan, "A Set of Romantic Hymns," Roots and Branches, 109. I would be a falcon and go free: Duncan, "My Mother Would Be a Falconress," Bendingthe BOTH, ^4. and so the stain uniquely gives consent: Lansing,"Thinking of the Eyebrows of My Lord," Heavenly Tree, 60. The owls shiver down : Duncan, "The Sentinels," Ground Work, vol. 2:39. The vowels are physical / corridors : Duncan, "An Owl Is an Only Bird of Poetry," Derivations, 132. we are strange and deep :McClure, Ghost Tantras, 73. always another one walkingbeside you :Eliot, The Waste Land, line 362. It goes without saying that / To have it make sense :Ashbery,"Litany," left column,AsWe Know, 55. Space and Time the saliva: Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 3:47. the dirty filthy whiningultimate thing: Olson, Maximus Poems, vol.3:33-34. through this hole / at the bottom of the cavern :Williams,Paterson, book 5, sect, i, p. 210 I heard words: Creeley, "The Language," Collected Poems, 283. the jack-hammer jabs : Lowell, "Colloquy in Black Rock," Selected Poems,5. Poets die adolescents : Lowell,"Fishnet," Selected Poems, 221. I heard / The birds inside me : Lowell,"Thanksgiving'sOver," Selected Poems,50. [glyphs] : Schwerner, The Tablets,72. C I T A T I O N S (PAGES 82-91) 209 I lie without sleeping, remembering: Kinnell, Book of Nightmares,30. { footnote } I wasonce another man's heart: Blaser,"Image-Nation," no. 9, Holy Forest, 127. The vessel Language is the only genetics : Kelly, "Against the Code," M ill of Particulars, n. Gravelly hill was 'the source and end (or boundary': Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 2:161. the Greeks / made much of chros : Kelly, "Jealousy," Finding the Measure, 91. Laminated marl—fret changes : Zukofsky, "A"22,pp. 512-13. not / superficial but a visible core : Ashbery, "Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror," Self Portrait, 70. bright life needles every clod : Rexroth, "Ice Shall Cover Nineveh," Collected Shorter Poems, 131. earth is interesting: Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 2:9. tropical forests / hardened to coal: Metcalf, Apalache, in Collected Works, vol. 1:464. I became aware / That beneath me : Rexroth, "Adonis in Summer," Collected Shorter Poems, 160. the faithfulness I can imagine would be a weed : Rich, "When We Dead Awaken,"Diving into the Wreck, 6. the tree, the cup, the star, the bird : Duncan, "Epilogos," Bending theBow, 136. more keeps getting included :Ashbery, "Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror," Self Portrait, 72. I cannot explain the action of leveling: Ashbery,"Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror," Self Portrait, 71. the greater the water you add: Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 2:10. You were fluid then, a network of soul: Duncan, "Adam's Way," Roots and Branches, 147. The gods / broken into the pieces that are us: Kelly, "Texts: 25 [The Philosopher's Stone]," Kill the Messenger, 167. why that was you that / is how you weather division : Zukofsky, "A"22,p.508. might have been. / Certainly these ashes : Duncan, "This Place Rumord to Have Been Sodom," Opening of the Field, 22. wind space and rain space :Pound, Cantos, no. LXXVI, p.452. the life / That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze : Stevens, "Sleight-of-Hand Man," Palm, 168. which in the midst of summer stops: Stevens, "The Auroras of Autumn," no. 7, Palm, 313. For the listener, who listens in the snow : Stevens, "The Snow Man," Palm,54. in the shattering of the cup : Duncan, "Epilogos," Bending theBOTH, 137. wrist high unwearing bent, cosmos: Zukofsky, "A"22,p. 524. The Cosmos / begins at the end of yourself: Olson, "Watered Rock," Olson 9:33. The wickedness/ for man :Olson, "Watered Rock," Olson 9:33. Jack Clarke's "we are under image" : Blaser: "Image-Nation," no. 9, Holy Forest, 128. zio C I T A T I O N S (PAGES 91-97) Nigredo All things move toward / the light: Niedecker, "Paean to Place," TheGranite Pail, 74-75. I passed through the lens : Berry, "Elegy," Collected Poems, 234. The descent to a level plain: Irby, "Cahokia," Catalpa, 96. strong like a puddle's ice :Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 2:5. 150,000 years ago :Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 3:140. Continents of water and of earth : Duncan, "The Continents," Roots and Branches, 175. The war of Africa against Eurasia : Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 2:1. There is only / the one continent: Duncan, "The Continents," Roots andBranches, 176. In the mind the bone pile grows :Webster, "Hominid Activity," Thicket Daybreak, 26. sarcophagus of we know not whom : Duncan, "Passages 30," Bending theBow, 131. tomorrow rustles in yesterday's corpse : Lansing, "Soluble Forest," Heavenly Tree, 203. Not lost battles or even defeated people : Spicer, "The Holy Grail" ("Book of the Death of Arthur"), Collected Books, 212. downward / to darkness: Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 2:162. The dreams pursue us over the snow: Kelly, "The Wall," Flesh Dream Book, 93. the whole mystery, the lush squeeze :Ammons, Sphere, 12-13. supraliminal language-field is body-field: Lansing, "Soluble Forest," Heavenly Tree, 200-201. to call up the dead from dreams :Irby, "Offertory," Catalpa, 101. but along the edge of the wall: Irby, "Offertory," Catalpa, 101. yolk openings in the hand : Irby, "Offertory," Catalpa, 101. crows on Tufts Hill: Irby, "Offertory," Catalpa, 101. and now there will be a footstep uncovering a rock in the mud : Irby, "Offertory," Catalpa, 102. where / From huddle of trash : Warren, "Looking Northward, Aegeanward:Nestlings on Seacliff," New and Selected Poems, 91. dripping fetid mass : Olson, "The Kingfishers," TheDistances,6. The Visitors—Resters: Olson, "The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs," TheDistances, 84-85. In any case the whole sea wasnow a hemisphere : Olson, "The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs," The Distances,83. gnostic reminder of/ world-rut: Mackey, "Song of the Andoumboulou: 19," Whatsaid Serif, 20. Hail them solely that they have the seeds: Olson, "A Newly Discovered 'Homeric' Hymn," The Distances,73. From Saturn to Demeter Boulders blunted like an old bear's teeth :Jeffers, "Apology for Bad Dreams," Collected Poetry, vol. 1:210. C I T A T I O N S ( P A G E S 98-107) 211 He brays humanity in a mortar :Jeffers, "Apology for Bad Dreams," Collected Poetry, vol. 1:210-11. We have flowed out of ourselves: Loy,"The Dead," Lost LunarBaedeker,72. We splinter into Wholes: Loy, "The Dead," Lost LunarBaedeker,72. I am the centre / Of a circle of pain : Loy, "Parturition," Lost LunarBaedeker, 4. The open window is full of a voice : Loy, "Parturition," Lost LunarBaedeker, 5. Stir of incipient life : Loy, "Parturition," Lost Lunar Baedeker, 6. There is a climax in sensibility: Loy, "Parturition," Lost LunarBaedeker, 5-6. The was—is—ever—shall—be : Loy, "Parturition," Lost LunarBaedeker, j. Milk light art is not construction, artifice: Blaser, "Image-Nation," no. u, Image-Nations, 45. These stars / are fragrant: Duncan, "Dante Etudes ('To Speak My Mind')," Ground Work, vol. 1:100. Sex on earth is rhymed angelic motion : Lansing, "Stanzasof Hyparxis," Heavenly Tree, 170. But the solar heart defines the blood : Lansing,"Stanzasof Hyparxis," Heavenly Tree, 171. pressing a knee or elbow: Kinnell, Book ofNightmares, 5. The sweet virile hair: Rexroth, "When We With Sappho," Collected Shorter Poems, 140. before us gods goddesses at the ends of words : Blaser, "Image-Nation," no. 12, Image-Nations, 43. A transparent base / shuddering:Johnson, "Letters to Walt Whitman," Valley, 95. The ringing in your ears : Snyder, "The Hump-Backed Flute Player," Mountains and Rivers, 82. Freedom. It isn't once : Rich,"ForMemory," Wild Patience,22. atavistic two-headed / beast: Mackey, "Amma Seru's Hammer's Heated Fall," School of Udhra, 39. { footnote } ta'wll said to've been sown : Mackey, "Song of the Andoumboulou: 18," WhatsaidSerif,16. "mu" more related to miss :Mackey, "Song of the Andoumboulou:27," Whatsaid Serif 64. room in Poitiers where one can stand :Pound, Cantos, no. XC, p.605. to see the world focused back at us :Johnson, "When Men Will Lie Down as Gracefully & as Ripe," Valley, 47. After a long time of light, there began to be eyes :Johnson, Ark,theFoundations, Beam 4. The floor of the upside dvwn Only the sun / in the morning: Olson, Maximus Poems,vol. 2:6. I tell you solemnly / That I was sorry :Jeffers, "Vulture," Collected Poetry, vol.3:462. The calyx of death's bounty :Crane, "At Melville'sTomb," Complete Poems, 34. 212 C I T A T I O N S ( P A G E S 107-116) anything / nature puts in the sea : Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 1:127. afternoon Manatee of my mind?: Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 2:13. Work the old images from the hoard : Duncan, "The Question," Opening of the Field, 55. The pageant, growing ever more curious :Ashbery, "Voyage in the Blue," Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror, 25. All night long / I was a Eumolpidae : Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 2:157. upside-down trees / and sky: Blaser, "Image-Nation," no. 12, Holy Forest, 140. That closed and open sounds: Zukofsky, "A" 12, pp. 138-39. Who bury the dead : Lansing, "The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward," Heavenly Tree, 4. for 'the / blossoms to / fall up': Zukofsky, "A" 14, p. 326. Only when the Flower: Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 3:74-75. as if the earth under our feet: W.C. Williams, "The pure products of America," Collected Poems, vol. 1:218. The eyes, clamped shut, squeeze to a star : Sobin, "All Octaves Simultaneous," Wind Chrysalid's Rattle. those stars in beautiful cosmology: Waldman, lovis, vol. 2:191. head full of stars: Ammons,"Concerning the Exclusions of the Object," Collected Poems,200. how / can I expel these roomy stars?: Ammons, "Concerning the Exclusions of the Object," Collected Poems,200. The immense stellar phenomenon : Rexroth, "The Phoenix and the Tortoise," Collected Longer Poems, 90. The orders / are elaborate : Kelly, TheLoom, 91. I looked up and saw / its form : Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 2:173. no tomb / is solid : Kelly, TheLoom, 224. can it be said to have come forth from the tomb?: Kelly,"Easter," Kill theMessenger, 178. When I am dead in the empty ear: Zukofsky, "A" 18, p. 393. Tell us of excess : Duncan, "The Propositions," Opening of the Field,35. The starry horizon This language is a horizon : Brandi,"This Language Isn't Speech," Heartbeat Geography, 177. I went out on my cabin porch : Rexroth, "The Signature of All Things," Collected Shorter Poems, 179. "the shape of heaven is as confused : Blaser,"Image-Nation," no. 13, Holy Forest, 142-43. The vast onion of the actual: Rexroth, "The Phoenix and the Tortoise," Collected Longer Poems, 77-78. Off-shore, by islands hidden in the blood : Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 1:1. starting from fish-shape Paumanok: Whitman, "Starting from Paumanok," no. i. running around arranging/ things : Blaser, "Image-Nation," no. 12, Holy Forest, 138. action is, perhaps,the magnitude : Blaser, "Image-Nation," no. 10, Holy Forest, 134. C I T A T I O N S (PAGES 117-125) 213 The impatient dead go out: Mackey, "Passing Thru," Ending Witness,79. Libyans and Egyptians entered the Mississippi: Metcalf, U.S.Dept. of the Interior, Collected Works, vol. 2:229. So the Jews, we now / from Tennessee inscriptions :Irby, "Jesus," ToMax Douglas. A band of seduction : Irby, "Delius," no. 8, ToMax Douglas. Nebula, whirlpool, mist & cloud :Johnson, "Four Orphic Poems," Valley, 29. For "where the figure is, the answer is" :Johnson, "Four Orphic Poems," Valley,30. The frozen being Looking at a Nation herself untaken :Olson, Maximus Poems,vol. 3:106. When the ancient wisdom is folded :Jeffers, "The Torch-Bearer's Race," CollectedPoetry, vol. 1:101. The cosmos will not / dissolve its orders : Duncan, "Passages 24," Bending theBOTH, 79. The tides are in our veins :Jeffers, "Continent's End," CollectedPoetry,vol. 1:16-17. some part ofus always / out beyond ourselves: Rich, "The Spirit of Place," Wild Patience,45. Emanation they look up at the sky they see : Rothenberg, "AHistory of Surrealism in Cattaraugus County," Seneca Journal, 107. { footnote } Twenty men crossing a bridge : Stevens, "Metaphors of a Magnifico," Palm, 35-. the limited body : Zukofsky, "A"12, pp. 202-3. My bikini is worth yr/raft: Pound, Cantos, no. XCV,p. 645. What is / hisses like a serpent: Duncan, "The Law,"Roots and Branches, 30. monster husband . .. Serpent Desire : Duncan, "Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar," Opening of the Field, 67. brought to her / insect instructor : Duncan, "Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar," Opening of the Field, 65. when the mind swings :Pound, Cantos, no. LXXXIII, p. 533. It begins with the root of the tongue : Waldman, "Makeup on Empty Space," Helping the Dreamer, 133. Memoranda and signatures An apparent confusion if lived with long enough : Johnson, "The Different Musics," Valley, 8y. to find, out of the design :Johnson, "When Men Will Lie Down as Gracefully & as Ripe," Valley, 47-48. 214 C I T A T I O N S (PAGES 126-133) All things / are engaged in writing their history:Johnson, "When Men Will Lie Down as Gracefully & as Ripe," Valley, 49. { footnote } history the dark crumble : Rich, "The Spirit of Place," Wild Patience, 41. that poems / might be made asHarry Partch makes / music :Johnson, "OfCircumstance, The Circum Stances," Valley, 69. engrossed // "between a miscroscopic & a telescopic / world" :Johnson, "Four Orphic Poems," Valley, 24. My whole life / needs to be here: Duncan, "Dante Etudes ('To SpeakMy Mind')," Ground Work, vol. 1:99-100. My life / in the leaves and on water: Niedecker, "Paean to Place," Granite Pail, 70. rich friend / silt: Niedecker, "Alongthe River," Granite Pail, y. And what might have been: Rexroth, "Lyell's Hypothesis Again," Collected Shorter Poems, 181. Tiny red marks on your flanks : Rexroth, "Lyell's Hypothesis Again," Collected Shorter Poems, 181. And a kind of greening speech comes:Johnson, Book of the Green Man,59. Each leaf is an encyclopedia : Rexroth, "Death,Judgment, Heaven, Hell," Collected Shorter Poems, 61. So goes: first, shape : Zukofsky, "A" 12, p. 126. the cave wall socket: Eshleman,"Placements," Hades in Manganese,29. THEN I KNOW I AM NATURE :McClure, RareAngel, 39. THE PREDATORS MAKE PATTERNS :McClure, RareAngel, 82. WE ARE STICK FIGURES :McClure, RareAngel, 92. yours was the mouth of the wish : Duncan, "Circulations of the Song," Ground Work, vol. 1:169. { footnote } I wanted ... a Guneaform : Strickland,"On First Looking into Diringer's The Alphabet: A Key to the History of Mankind!' True North, 5. John of the Oak was here: Kelly, "Arnolfini's Wedding," Mill of Particulars, 121. monumenta. In nature are signatures: Pound, Cantos, no. LXXXVII, p. 573. Proprioception How can a body be made from the word?: Blaser, "Image-Nation," no. 25, Holy Forest, 370. boldly traveling, / on the heat of the dead : Snyder, "Toward Climax," Turtle Island, 84. It is dangerous to leave written that which is badly written :Williams, Paterson, book 3,sect. 3, p. 129. This is how we came to resume writing : Silliman, Tjanting, 109. Get mind to hand or add tongue to eye : Silliman, Tjanting, 99. The act of jotting down these marks : Silliman, Tjanting, 108. These words jump around like fleas: Silliman, Tjanting, 42. This is typicalis an orangesentence : Silliman, Tjanting, 189. C I T A T I O N S (PAGES 133-140) 215 Conversing lazily over espresso: Silliman, Tjanting, ij6. Reading rewrites this : Silliman, Tjanting, 40. Rewriting reads this : Silliman, Tjanting, 91. While you read this you continue thinking: Silliman, Tjanting, 47. This text might be a guide : Silliman, Tjanting, 158. Vertigo Dante in my dream: Kelly, "Arnaut Daniel," Flesh Dream Book,108. Tape recorder—tape reason : Zukofsky, "A" 13, p.288. This living hand, now warm: Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 3:177 [original in Keats, Poems, 438]. A hundred years ago I made a book: Palmer, "Baudelaire Series," Sun, 9. the unnamable draws from us a world / of names : Duncan, "The Five Songs," Ground Work, vol. 2:79. { footnote } In the poem he learns to turn :Palmer, "Notes for Echo Lake 3," Notesfor Echo Lake, 17. { footnote } would live against sentences :Palmer, "Notes for Echo Lake 10," Notesfor Echo Lake, 62. { footnote } Prose is a sentence : Coolidge, "The Walls Have Ears in Mind: On First Receiving Notesfor Echo Lake!' Solution Passage,179. It is a site where language hangs : DuPlessis, "Draft 33: Deixis," Drafts, 223. It is an illusion that we were ever alive : Stevens, "The Rock," Palm,362. I wonder, have I lived a skeleton's life : Stevens, "AsYou Leave the Room," Palm, 396. & where is wisdom : Kelly, "Arnaut Daniel," Flesh Dream Book,109. Characters The problem of personality : Rexroth, "The Phoenix and the Tortoise," Collected Longer Poems, jo. it's gonna be hot soon : Dorn, Gunslinger,58. I too had been struck from the float: Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," no.5. Straight man. / 1000 percent: Dorn, Gunslinger,60. What then, if we make I / a receptacle : Dorn, Gunslinger,60. The choice is simply, / I will: Creeley, "The Finger," Collected Poems, 387. In which these painfully small / endings: Creeley, "Echoes," Echoes, 98. Here now you are : Creeley, "Like a man committed to searching," Collected Poems,428. scatter be / my name : Mackey, "Songs of the Andoumboulou: 34," Whatsaid Serif, 103. You never know what name :Giscombe, Giscome Road,69. a negro miner : Giscombe, GiscomeRoad, 17. the blood as if it too were out there : Giscombe, GiscomeRoad, 59. the same old story : Giscombe, GiscomeRoad,49. 216 C I T A T I O N S (PAGES 140-146) the story's the same old edge : Giscombe, Giscome Road,34. the longest song bends away: Giscombe, Giscome Road, 64. His they their / we :Mackey,"Irritable Mystic," School ofUdhra, zj. Language obeyed Like translations: DuPlessis, "Draft 33: Deixis," Drafts, 219. the work of Art to set words : Duncan, "Passages 33,"Ground Work, vol. 1:19. the line / [is] a trial: Duncan, "Passages 33,"Ground Work, vol. 1:22. The common air includes / Events: Zukofsky, "A"6,pp. 26-27. Of and Or are snails,repeat vegetable lessons: Duncan, "Structures of Rime VIII," Opening of the Field, 70. Language obeyd flares tongues in obscure matter : Duncan, "Food for Fire, Food for Thought," Opening of the Field, 95. eye net I / quoin own me: Zukofsky, "A"23, p.5-49. For example / The poem does not know : Spicer, "Heads of the Town" ("Homage to Creeley"), Collected Books, 123. Our image shrinksto a morpheme: Spicer, "Language" ("Morphemics"), CollectedBooks,235. For the blue wash of sound drawn back to its shores : Duncan, "Structure of Rime X," Opening of the Field, 72. Hello and goodbye: McNaughton, "For Peter," Shit OnMy Shoes. The verb divides us evenly: Palmer, "Tomb of Baudelaire," Without Music,43. the touch breaks / who touches : Kelly, Book of Persephone, no. 14. would have to be mmmmm : Spicer, "Heads of the Town" ("AFake Novel about the Life of Rimbaud"), Collected Books, 161. A design Thoreau saw :Johnson, "When Men Will Lie Down as Gracefully & as Ripe," Valley, 47. Then ache cue test his air earth: Zukofsky, Catullus, no.64. Song's fateful. Crime / fulfills the law: Duncan, "The Law," Roots andBranches, 27. Language obeyd flares tongues in obscure matter : Duncan, "Food for Fire, Food for Thought," Opening of the Field, 95. Pestilence mill of particulars : Kelly, "The Mill," The Mill of Particulars, 96-97. Spreading over the world: Rexroth, "Strength throughJoy," Collected Shorter Poems,156. Tomb of Donald Duck: Eshleman, Fracture, 91—102. you must now take into consideration : Eshleman, "The Aurignacian Summation," Fracture, 128. For what we cannot accomplish:Williams,Paterson, book 2, sect. 3,p.79. The ear / catchesrime like pangsof a disease : Duncan,"Passagesn," Bending the Bow, 32. C I T A T I O N S (PAGES 147-150) 217 And if I know not my wound : Duncan, "The Regulators ('In Blood's Domaine')," Ground Work, vol.2:69. Mind comes into this language : Duncan, "After Passage," Ground Work, vol. 2:69. There is no ecstasy of beauty : Duncan, "The Regulators ('In Blood's Domaine')," Ground Work, vol. 2:69. enemies . . . whose whispers prickle the spirit: Stevens, "Examination of the Hero in a Time of War," Palm, 199. not men but / heads and armors of the worm : Duncan, "Passages 21," Bending theBow, 73. the / hollow coil of our own dark scribbles : Sobin, "Under the Bright Orchards," Towards the Blanched Alphabets, 5. nothing's written, in effect, that's not underwritten: Sobin, "Premises," Towards the Blanched Alphabets, 8. all this garbage!: Ammons, Garbage,75. Posses led by a promising girl: Dorn, "Home on the Range, February, 1962," Collected Poems, 44. I am bent on fathoming: Rich, "Atlas of the Difficult World," Atlas, 22. Actually the stirrings now of man faced / with a wall: Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 3:ijj. To unmean with moaning: Mackey, "Aspic Surmise," School of Udhra, 76. Tellus old earth : Lamantia,"The Mysteries of Writing in the West," Meadowlark, 53. recalling theJew / in the pit: Williams, Paterson, book /, sect. 2,p.221. De rerum natura: epic's lyricabsolute this poem / Of the phoenix and the tortoise :Rexroth, "The Phoenix and the Tortoise," Collected Longer Poems, 64. Fragments of its inexhaustible / Life : Rexroth, "The Phoenix and the Tortoise," Collected Longer Poems, 63. bumping / In a sharl of kelp : Rexroth, "The Phoenix and the Tortoise," Collected Longer Poems, 64. And, out of his drained gray flesh : Rexroth, "The Phoenix and the Tortoise," Collected Longer Poems, 64. the organization / Of the evil instincts: Rexroth, "The Phoenix and the Tortoise," Collected Longer Poems, 74. Its goal is the achievement: Rexroth, "The Phoenix and the Tortoise," Collected Longer Poems, 80-81. The assumption of history : Rexroth, "The Phoenix and the Tortoise," Collected Longer Poems, 76. The vast onion of the actual: Rexroth, "The Phoenix and the Tortoise," Collected Longer Poems, 77—78. 218 C I T A T I O N S (PAGES 150-157) Endurance, novelty, and simple / Occurrence :Rexroth, "The Phoenix and the Tortoise," Collected Longer Poems, 71—72. the thing that falls away is myself: Rexroth, "The Phoenix and the Tortoise," Collected Longer Poems,72. The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind : Stevens, "Connoisseur of Chaos," Palm, 167. one more / Element in the immense disorder of truths: Stevens, "Connoisseur of Chaos," Palm, 167. a plentiful waste :Ammons, Garbage, 103. A. A violent order is disorder: Stevens, "Connoisseur of Chaos," Palm, 166. There is an exquisite movement, like it were chaos :Johnson, Valley, 25. prosper / o / cell:Johnson, "Beam 25, A Bicentennial Hymn," Ark,theFoundations. beckoned by pungencies :Johnson, "The Unfoldings," Valley, 106. are nothing / but an immense swarm :Johnson, "The Unfoldings," Valley, 108. Without dimension:Johnson, RADIOS, book 2. Time was we were molten: Frost, "Too Anxious for Rivers," Collected Poems, 343. the embodiment that crashed : Frost, "The Most of It," Collected Poems, 307. He thought he kept the universe alone: Frost, "The Most of It," Collected Poems, 307. Speaking of contraries, see how the brook : Frost, "West-Running Brook," Collected Poems, 237-38. Divinely superfluousbeauty -.Jeffers, "Divinely Superfluous Beauty," Collected Poetry, vol. 1:4. And the passionate human intelligence :Jeffers, "The unformed volcanic earth," Collected Poetry, vol. 3:431. Is this more beautiful / Than man's disasters?:Jeffers, "Night without Sleep," Collected Poetry, vol.2:55-9. this fate going on / Outside our fates :Jeffers, "Oh Lovely Rock," Collected Poetry, vol.2:546. this rock will be here:Jeffers, "Oh Lovely Rock," Collected Poetry, vol. 2:5-47. The beauty of things was born before eyes :Jeffers, "Credo," Collected Poetry, vol. 1:239. As for us: / We must uncenter our minds :Jeffers, "Carmel Point," Collected Poetry, vol. 3:399. Here was death, and with terror:Jeffers, "Orca," Collected Poetry, vol. 3:206. The earth is a star:Jeffers, "Orca," Collected Poetry, vol. 3:206. To know that great civilizations have broken down :Jeffers, "The Answer," Collected Poetry, vol. 2:536. It is good for man:Jeffers, "The Beaks of Eagles," Collected Poetry, vol. 2:537. learning trembling religion and blood-sacrifice :Jeffers, "The unformed volcanic earth," Collected Poetry, vol. 3:433. Lucretius felt the change of the world : Jeffers, "Prescription of Painful Ends," Collected Poetry, vol.3:14. C I T A T I O N S (PAGES 157-165) 219 one builds poems for treasuries :Jeffers, "Prescription of Painful Ends," Collected Poetry, vol. 3:14. one christens each poem :Jeffers, "Prescription of Painful Ends," Collected Poetry, vol. 3:14. furious from perception: Pound, Cantos, no. XC, p.606. little chirping Sirens :Jeffers, "The Sirens," Collected Poetry, vol.3:4. While this America settles in the mould : Jeffers, "Shine, Perishing Republic," Collected Poetry, vol. 1:15. { footnote } pained thoughts found / The honey peace :Jeffers, "To the Stone-Cutters," Collected Poetry, vol. 1:5. The saccharescent, lying in glucose :Pound, Cantos, no. XV,p.64. England off there in black darkness:Pound, Cantos, no. XXVII,p. 129. Here the human past is dim and feeble : Jeffers, "Haunted Country," Collected Poetry, vol. 1:111. Ghosts of inner ecology No trace anywhere of life, you say : Beckett, "Imagination Dead Imagine," Complete Short Prose, 182. The rotted man inside, who used to seem archetypal: Eshleman, "Narration Hanging from the Cusp of the Eighties," Hades in Manganese, 96. preformed chaos / strives to form: Meltzer, "K-K-K-A-O-S: Lecture Notes (Biodegradable Prose Specks)," Arrows, 186. Hermetic, terrible from joy: Lansing, "Graffiti, Ancient and Modern," Heavenly Tree, 9. Dark and enormous rolls the surf:Jeffers, "The Torch-Bearer's Race," Collected Poetry, vol. 1:99. As the dead prey upon us :Olson, "Asthe Dead Prey Upon Us," The Distances,74. The nets we are entangled in : Olson, "Asthe Dead Prey Upon Us," TheDistances, 77. The table top looked glassy for a few seconds: Irby, "September," Catalpa, 56. Everything happened instantaneously :Irby, "September," Catalpa, 56-57. compost line of any mind :Irby, "To Max Douglas," ToMax Douglas. the dark gods / wait in the blooded underground : Irby, "To Max Douglas," To Max Douglas. the hermetic secret floats : Lamantia,"West," Meadoiolark, 8. in a place named No-Such-Place : Mackey, "Song of the Andoumboulou: 24," Whatsaid Serif^. which direction now / does distance take: Irby, "To Max Douglas," ToMax Douglas. the Jurassic longing: Irby, "To Max Douglas," ToMax Douglas. k / the letter cutting : Meltzer, "K-K-K-A-O-S: Lecture Notes (Biodegradable Prose Specks)," Arrows, 185. 220 C I T A T I O N S (PAGES 165-182) All life long / you include something : Lansing, "The Great Form is Without Shape," Heavenly Tree, 13. Origin Not our good luck nor the instant peak :Jeffers, "Not Our Good Luck," Collected Poetry, vol. 1:12. { footnote } roll, that it / billow: Sobin, "Called It Space," Towards the BlanchedAlphabets, 122. Who shall say I am not / the happy genius : Williams, "Danse Russe," Collected Poems, vol. 1:87. { footnote } as if we recalld the nature of the deep : Duncan, "An Alternate Life ('Supplication')," Ground Work, vol.2:9. occult ferocity of origin: Howe, "Articulation of Sound Forms in Time," Singularities,30. Detritus pathways The web is woven : Stevens, "The Dwarf," Palm, 152. It is the mind that is woven: Stevens, "The Dwarf," Palm, 152-53. it let me stand / above it: Kelly, "Swallowtail," Kill theMessenger,206. wooing swallow: Webster, "A Body of Paradigmatic Fields," Thicket Daybreak, i. detritus pathways : Snyder, "Toward Climax," Turtle Island, 84. unmade boundaries of acts and poems :Rukeyser,"The Book of the Dead," Muriel Rukeyser Reader, 48. As species disappear, the paleolithic grows more vivid: Eshleman, "Placements," Hades in Manganese, 29. "The brush / May paint" : Snyder, "Logging," no. 15, Myths and Texts, 15. Scruples & superstition { footnote } "Was" / "the human psyche" "made of women" : Notley, Descent of Alette, 71. Was the agreement that words shine :Waldman, "Suppose a Game," Kill orCure, 2. Now I subtract myself: Eshleman, "The Aurignacians Have the Floor," Hades in Manganese, 88. where drought is the epic: Rich, "The Desert as Garden of Paradise," Time's Power, 27. Psychosm that, / through us, the / hazel / might ripen : Sobin, "The Earth asAir: AnArs Poetica," The Earth as Air,102. C I T A T I O N S (PAGES 183-190) 221 Superfluity God said, "Let meanings move" : Rukeyser, "The Sixth Night: Waking,"Muriel Rukeyser Reader, 196. high superfluousness :Jeffers, "The Excesses of God," Collected Poetry, vol. 1:4. to fling / Rainbows over the rain .-Jeffers, "The Excesses of God," Collected Poetry, vol. 1:4. The Great Mind passes by: Snyder,"The Flowing," Mountains and Rivers Without End, 71. Do I move toward form : Rukeyser,"Double Ode," Muriel Rukeyser Reader, 274. not a man,not a poet: Garcia Lorca, "Double Poem of Lake Eden," Poet in New York, 79. A certain arch and/or ache : Mackey,"Song of the Andoumdoulou: 7,"Eroding Witness,54. An undertow / of whir: Mackey,"Waters / wet the / mouth," Eroding Witness, 3. it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing: Moore, "AGrave," Observations,60. we are keepers of the secret: H. D, "The Walls Do Not Fall," no. ij, Trilogy, 24. the communication / of the dead :Eliot, "Little Gidding," no. i, Complete Poems, 192. crowned knot of fire :Eliot, "Little Gidding," no. 5, Complete Poems, 198. where is the point: Eliot, "ANote on War Poetry," Complete Poems, 202. war is not a life :Eliot, "ANote on War Poetry," Complete Poems, 202. { footnote } The war is a mineral perfection : Duncan, "AnEssay at War," Derivations, 23. is the war or part of it: Williams,"Author's Introduction," Collected Poems, vol. 2:53. my flower that splits / the rocks :Williams, "ASort of Song," Collected Poems, vol. 2:55. The new opens / new ways :Williams, "Catastrophic Birth," Collected Poems, vol. 2:56. the empty / ear: Williams, "Paterson: The Falls," Collected Poems, vol. 2:58. The Kermess:Williams,"The Dance," Collected Poems,vol. 2:^8. what is war: Williams,"War, the Destroyer!" Collected Poems, vol. 2:43. The empty house Is the house empty?: Graham, "The Phase after History," Dream of the Unified Field, ijy. We are the seed that dies : Seferis, "Memory I," Collected Poems, 359. The times promised The individual / has become divided : Olson, Maximus Poems, vol.3:73. I've seen it all go in other directions : Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 3:1^5. One even, at this date begins to look on man : Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 3:163. Same day, Later: Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 3:166. polis is / eyes: Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 1:26. The universe is filld with eyes: Duncan, "The Law I Love Is Major Mover," Opening of the Field, 10. Whomans in the whosmos : Byrd, Great Dimestore Centenniel,98. 222 C I T A T I O N S (PAGES 190-198) History cannot end as history: Byrd, Great Dimestore Centennial, 61. The World / has become divided :Olson, Maximus Poems, vol.3:73. The earth / shall have preceded love :Olson, MaximusPoems, vol. 3:74. without three Towns / there is no Society : Olson, MaximusPoems, vol.3:73. Migration in fact (which is probably / as constant: Olson, Maximus Poems, vol. 3:176. that the Mind or Will always / successfully opposes: Olson, MaximusPoems, vol. 3:176. Astride / the Cabot / fault: Olson, MaximusPoems, vol.3:37. Frances Rose-Troup Land : Olson, MaximusPoems, vol.3:37. The uninterrupted tissue Ficino had the idea: Duncan, "Apprehensions," Roots and Branches, 31. There is no life that does not rise / melodic : Duncan, "Apprehensions," Rootsand Branches, 43. theft of what the heart desired :Duncan, "Apprehensions," Roots andBranches, 35-36. To build light: Pound, Cantos, no. XCIV, p.642. these lights never die : Lamantia, "There," Meadovilark, 70. The elk mind moves its antlers : Stein, "Later Poems from 'The Sad World,'" Hat Rack Tree, 93. A man's paradise is his good nature :Pound, Cantos, no. XCIII, p. 623. to perambulate the bounds of cosmos: Olson, Maximus Poems,vol. 3:133. philosophic wedding: Kelly,"Arnolfini's Wedding," Mill of Particulars, 122. Jung: "There are unconscious aspects" :Johnson, Ark,theFoundations, Beam 26. An Inlet of Reality, or Soul: Lansing,Heavenly Tree, 40. whatever might chafes away under the peel: Webster, "Anthropophagy 1928," Thicket Daybreak, 67. From the ape at my shoulderblade :Johnson, Ark,theFoundations, Beam 12. ...