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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHEREVER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherever I go Last Line: He will accept with terror Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | |||
On the coarse brown hide of the mountain over its rolling tongue of the road we drive to the mouth of this carcass piled above us, in its shadow. Far into the vertebraed distance the stubbled skin lies in plains. Where we see water, it is an open eye dead to the sun, and when we look up the sun is its crawling maggot. Only that a foot leans upon a pedal sees us out of the cemetery of this body, dead from before the time we were swamp. Rubber, oil and steel die beneath us for our deliverance, and where trees dress the impoverished sky, our eyes open again within our burying selves. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB |
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