Abstract
In a bracing rendition of a primal scene in “Route,” George Oppen writes:
Imagine a man in the ditch, The wheels of the overturned wreck Still spinning—
I don’t mean he despairs, I mean if he does not He sees in the manner of poetry.
(Poems 198)
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Rasula, J. (2009). Gendering the Muse. In: Modernism and Poetic Inspiration. Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230622197_5
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