Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
146 PA RT T W O exercise in metaphor jumps straight from old age to nature—a feat of imagina- tion. Usually figures of speech go ...
REVIVING AMERICA WITH WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS 147 so Williams urges us to “imagine the New World that rises to our windows” ever ...
148 PA RT T W O “In the composition,” he says, “the artist does exactly what every eye must do with life.” Sketching in his canv ...
149 “source then a blue as” Williams and the Environmental News here is a constant barrier between the reader and his consciousn ...
150 PA RT T W O on a wheelbarrow and rainwater and white chickens—or on “wheel / barrow” and “rain / water” and “white / chicken ...
WILLIAMS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS 151 A poet foisting passion onto wind and rain, let ’s say, “makes nature an acces- sory... ...
152 PA RT T W O art, wine, ravishing countrysides. Enthralled by the Old World, Williams went on writing about the New. He maneu ...
WILLIAMS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS 153 MUST finish before I can be young again.” His book’s “dynamic energy” roused D. H. Lawre ...
154 PA RT T W O eccentric knotted twigs bending forward hornlike at the top A priming gesture—“I must tell you,” “So much depend ...
WILLIAMS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS 155 Yet Williams never saw this tree. His sycamore rises bodily from an Alfred Stieglitz pho ...
Alfred Stieglitz, Spring Showers Photogravure, 30.8 × 12.6 cm, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.849, Art Institute of Chicago. ...
WILLIAMS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS 157 If all poems are quest poems, few home in on their goal so winningly, each tapered clust ...
158 PA RT T W O epic Williams worked on for twenty years, trying like Thoreau and Whitman to turn up fertile soil for American c ...
WILLIAMS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS 159 Alongside his radical bent, as with nature ’s firstlings in Spring and All, rooted, they ...
160 PA RT T W O Turning seventy, disabled by a heart attack and harsh strokes, Williams worked on a long love poem, “Asphodel, T ...
WILLIAMS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS 161 Of asphodel, that greeny flower, I come, my sweet, to sing to you! My heart rouses think ...
162 ermoso es! (She ’s beautiful!). In New Mexico D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), meeting two hunters with a mountain lion they’ve k ...
D. H. LAWRENCE IN TAORMINA AND TAOS 163 its “small, high, hateful bugle in my ear... / Obscenely ecstasied / Sucking live blood, ...
164 PA RT T W O bowels than to D. H. Lawrence ’s. Still, “a man” lives vulnerable on earth, while the snake, “Being earth-brown, ...
D. H. LAWRENCE IN TAORMINA AND TAOS 165 I looked round, I put down my pitcher, I picked up a clumsy log And threw it at the wate ...
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