Friday, January 7, 2022

George Oppen


Expressing Gratitude

                   with Mary

Oppen on Objects

suppose, instead of an 'instant archeology' 
that imagines a personification of things already known, 
one imagines the first objects to become object to living consciousness-
their force is that among sensations they emerged as objects-
can we suppose, in the history of the Sacred, a greater moment ? 
This is the ground the poem's meant to stand on.
George Oppen, Selected Letters, p. 248

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