#Americans #Modernism
In Brueghel’s great picture, The… the dancers go round, they go roun… around, the squeal and the blare a… tweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and f… tipping their bellies (round as th…
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…
What have I to say to you When we shall meet? Yet— I lie here thinking of you. The stain of love
"Sweet land" at last! out of sea— the Venusremembering wavelets rippling with laughter—
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…
When over the flowery, sharp pastu… edge, unseen, the salt ocean lifts its form—chicory and daisies tied, released, seem hardly flower… but color and the movement—or the…
Warm sun, quiet air an old man sits in the doorway of a broken house— boards for windows
Why pretend to remember the weather two years back? Why not? Listen close then repeat after others what they have just said and win a reputation for vivacity. Oh feed upon petals o...
Gagarin says, in ecstasy, he could have gone on forever he floated at and sang
You sullen pig of a man you force me into the mud with your stinking ash-cart! Brother! —if we were rich
The murderer’s little daughter who is barely ten years old jerks her shoulders right and left so as to catch a glimpse of me
unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line
THE ARCHER is wake! The Swan is flying! Gold against blue An Arrow is lying. There is hunting in heaven—
The dayseye hugging the earth in August, ha! Spring is gone down in purple, weeds stand high in the corn, the rainbeaten furrow
Men with picked voices chant the n… of cities in a huge gallery: promi… that pull through descending stair… to a deep rumbling. The rubbing feet