#Americans #Modernism
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,
Summer! the painting is organized about a young reaper enjoying his noonday rest
A big young bareheaded woman in an apron Her hair slicked back standing on the street One stockinged foot toeing
Trundled from the strangeness of the sea —— a kind of heaven —— Ladies and Gentlemen!
Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Which sky? The sky where Watteau hung a lady’s slipper. Your knees
Of asphodel, that greeny flower, like a buttercup upon its branching stem— save that it’s green and wooden— I come, my sweet,
In this world of as fine a pair of breasts as ever I saw the fountain in Madison Square
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…
It was an icy day. We buried the cat, then took her box and set fire to it in the back yard.
When I am alone I am happy. The air is cool. The sky is flecked and splashed and wound with color. The crimson phalloi of the sassafras leaves
Winter is long in this climate and spring—a matter of a few days only,—a flower or two picked from mud or from among wet leaves or at best against treacherous
O—EH—lee! La—la! Donna! Donna! Blue is the sky of Palermo; Blue is the little bay; And dost thou remember the orange…
This horrible but superb painting the parable of the blind without a red in the composition shows a group of beggars leading
The rose is obsolete but each petal ends in an edge, the double facet cementing the grooved columns of air ——The edge
All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon moves gently among