Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
222 PA RT T W O As if I swayed out on the wildest wave alive, And yet was still. And I rejoiced in being what I was. River water ...
223 “That they are there!” George Oppen’s Psalm of Attentiveness t ’s... a lyric reaction to the world,” says George Oppen (1908 ...
224 PA RT T W O if we ’re to come through sanely. Just that rain-glazed wheelbarrow has a cleans- ing effect, what ’s mundane gl ...
GEORGE OPPEN’S PSALM OF ATTENTIVENESS 225 small beauty of the forest.” His small word “small” trips the clichéd “beauty of the f ...
226 PA RT T W O Our distant closeness in which the wild deer appear, eyes effortless and lips nuzzling, gives way to cosmic “dis ...
GEORGE OPPEN’S PSALM OF ATTENTIVENESS 227 deer might flee, their eyes no longer effortless, or might quietly admit us. Within “P ...
228 “surprised at seeing” Elizabeth Bishop Traveling A scream, the echo of a scream, hangs over that Nova Scotian village. No on ...
ELIZABETH BISHOP TRAVELING 229 —“a dreadful trip,” she told Marianne Moore. The poem’s first sentence, wind- ing through six six ...
230 PA RT T W O through late afternoon a bus journeys west, the windshield flashing pink, pink glancing off of metal, brushing t ...
ELIZABETH BISHOP TRAVELING 231 Then with no warning, our bus window turns visionary in richer light. How else could we see the f ...
232 PA RT T W O Now, it ’s all right now even to fall asleep just as on all those nights overhearing the adults. Then mid-stanza ...
ELIZABETH BISHOP TRAVELING 233 joy? Maybe everlasting tides and human vicissitudes are eased by this communal “jolt” of pure ani ...
234 PA RT T W O she ’s aware that art only fakes reality (“the bits that show”), and that a “gray- blue wisp” might give us what ...
ELIZABETH BISHOP TRAVELING 235 how she and her artist forebear coincide, as do life and art, nature and people, her mind now dig ...
236 PA RT T W O predicament with other life on earth. We can’t go back and save those yet-to- be-dismantled elms, but “how live” ...
ELIZABETH BISHOP TRAVELING 237 hung five old pieces of fish-line, or four and a wire leader with the swivel still attached, like ...
238 PA RT T W O and then a baby rabbit jumped out, short-eared, to our surprise. So soft!—a handful of intangible ash with fixed ...
239 “Why is your mouth all green?” Something Alive in May Swenson “ Maybe, somehow, after the New Year we can get together. We ’ ...
240 PA RT T W O rather have been working in the orchard like her brothers. Her father, who taught woodworking at Utah State Agri ...
SOMETHING ALIVE IN MAY SWENSON 241 To Bishop this poem felt overemphatic and too vernacular. Swenson had to defend “the construc ...
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