I like how this line, "Having these things in the periphery of awareness infiltrates and shapes our thought in ways we do not understand," reverberates with the opening lines of George Oppen's Of Being Numerous: "There are things / We live among and to see them / Is to know ourselves."
It is interesting how the work we were reading together in our 20s has left threads through the rest of our lives. Oppen is one. My next post will have more on Zukofsky.
I like how this line, "Having these things in the periphery of awareness infiltrates and shapes our thought in ways we do not understand," reverberates with the opening lines of George Oppen's Of Being Numerous: "There are things / We live among and to see them / Is to know ourselves."
It is interesting how the work we were reading together in our 20s has left threads through the rest of our lives. Oppen is one. My next post will have more on Zukofsky.
Yes, and I’ll get to the Zukofsky as well, as soon as I can get back to Machida. Meanwhile, you’ve lead me back to Oppen for my morning reading.
I should read both the Oppen's again. Almost finiehdPaul Klee's Table.