#AmericanWriters #Modernism
Paterson lies in the valley under… its spent waters forming the outli… lies on his right side, head near… of the waters filling his dreams!… his dreams walk about the city whe…
I will teach you my towns… how to perform a funeral… for you have it over a tr… of artists— unless one should scour t…
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain
Beloved you are Caviar of Caviar Of all I love you best O my Japanese bird nest No herring from Norway
ALL those treasures that lie in t… Mightier than the room of the star… All those treasures—I hold them i… Against the sides and the lid and… Crying that there is no sun come a…
It’s a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!
A middle-northern March, now as a… gusts from the South broken agains… but from under, as if a slow hand… it moves—not into April—into a sec… the old skin of wind-clear scales…
Ecstatic bird songs pound the hollow vastness of the sky with metallic clinkings— beating color up into it at a far edge,—beating it, beating…
If you had come away with me into another state we had been quiet together. But there the sun coming up out of the nothing beyond the lake…
a burst of iris so that come down for breakfast we searched through the rooms for
Of asphodel, that greeny flower, like a buttercup upon its branching stem– save that it’s green and wooden– I come, my sweet,
As the cat climbed over the top of the jamcloset first the right
Light hearted William twirled his November moustaches and, half dressed, looked from the bedroom window upon the spring weather.
The sky has given over its bitterness. Out of the dark change all day long rain falls and falls
I bought a dish mop— having no daughter— for they had twisted fine ribbons of shining copper about white twine