Showing posts with label objrctivist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label objrctivist. Show all posts

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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