Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
262 PART THREE a mother skunk with her column of kittens swills the garbage pail. She jabs her wedge-head in a cup of sour cream ...
AMERICA’S ANGST AND ROBERT LOWELL’S 263 Crouching at his TV, Lowell watches “the drained faces of Negro school- children.” The A ...
264 PART THREE In this man’s psychic imbalance, off rhymes scrape the ear, however slight: “jar” / “war,” “minnow” / “window,” “ ...
AMERICA’S ANGST AND ROBERT LOWELL’S 265 Across the river, ledges of suburban factories tan in the sulphur-yellow sun of the unfo ...
266 o a poet, although often impelled... to write poems of pure celebration, is driven inevitably to lament, to anger, and to ex ...
LIFE ILLUMINED AROUND DENISE LEVERTOV 267 and constantly nevertheless persists in beauty, she asks at the end, Who can utter the ...
268 PART THREE This desire, which so impressed Paul Levertoff, would permeate poem after poem by his daughter. “For Instance,” o ...
LIFE ILLUMINED AROUND DENISE LEVERTOV 269 all night the glitter of all that shines out of itself crisps the vast swathes of the ...
Denise Levertov, “An English Field in the Nuclear Age” manuscript. Courtesy of Department of Special Collections and University ...
LIFE ILLUMINED AROUND DENISE LEVERTOV 271 And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down t ...
272 PART THREE Her sense of peril stuns us all the more, lodged in a colorful invertebrate. Then the “petals,” really tentacles, ...
LIFE ILLUMINED AROUND DENISE LEVERTOV 273 capacity in myself to see the world more freshly.” Meanwhile the older poet welcomed i ...
274 PART THREE *** the mountain revealing itself unclouded, its snow tinged apricot as it looked west Far but not too far from M ...
275 “the tree making us / look again” Shirley Kaufman’s Roots in the Air mericanhyphenIsraeli” seems the way to describe her, sa ...
276 PART THREE When you live in Jerusalem you begin to feel the weight of stones. You begin to know the word was made stone, not ...
SHIRLEY KAUFMAN’S ROOTS IN THE AIR 277 From Claims, “Chosen” begins not with nature imaging history but imaged by history, for o ...
278 PART THREE In “Waiting,” on the Day of Atonement, ... the rains are late, we ’re not forgiven, and autumn won’t come. A few ...
SHIRLEY KAUFMAN’S ROOTS IN THE AIR 279 A kind of privilege. As if they earned the right through the exacting summer. Look! They ...
280 PART THREE “Because... because... because”: what ’s to come of this hanging, dropping, bruising, sagging, drifting away, and ...
SHIRLEY KAUFMAN’S ROOTS IN THE AIR 281 Much American poetry, such as Kaufman’s lavender petals and jacaranda clumps, stems from ...
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