#AmericanWriters #Modernism
Why go further? One might conceivably rectify the rhythm, study all out and arrive at the perfection of a tiger lily or a china doorknob. One might lift all out of the ruck, be a worthy...
contend in a sea which the land pa… shielding them from the too—heavy… of an ungoverned ocean which when… tortures the biggest hulls, the be… to pit against its beatings, and s…
A rumpled sheet Of brown paper About the length And apparent bulk Of a man was
Go to sleep—though of course you w… to tideless waves thundering slant… strong embankments, rattle and swi… dashed thirty feet high, caught by… scattered and strewn broadcast in…
The over-all picture is winter icy mountains in the background the return from the hunt it is toward evening from the left
You know there is not much that I desire, a few chrysanthemum… half lying on the grass, yellow and brown and white, the talk of a few people, the trees,
Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentites stirs me to it:
All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon moves gently among
Among of green stiff old
Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow! It is not a color. It is summer! It is the wind on a willow, the lap of waves, the shadow
Her body is not so white as anemone petals nor so smooth ——nor so remote a thing. It is a field of the wild carrot taking the field by force; the grass
You sullen pig of a man you force me into the mud with your stinking ash-cart! Brother! —if we were rich
"Sweet land" at last! out of sea— the Venusremembering wavelets rippling with laughter—
The pure products of America go crazy— mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey
unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line