11-14-2015, 02:50 PM
(11-14-2015, 01:50 PM)NobodyNothing Wrote: ^^^ I like that. It hit me and I got it the first time I read it. Yet it captures that most exquisite of all happenings, that sheer wonder contained and released in consciousness nakedly beholding the actuality of existence itself, as in how can this possibly be...
Oppen's "THE DUDE", yes he is.
Charles Olson claims that human beings can learn to think concretely through the body
rather than through the dangerous abstractions such as nation, race, and class. In
"Causal Mythology" Olson avers, "I don't believe in cultures myself. I think that's a lot
of hung up stuff like organized anything. I believe there is simply ourselves, and where
we are has a particularity which we'd better use because that's about all we've got. . . .
Put an end to nation, put an end to culture, put an end to divisions of all sorts" This
notion that large abstractions are dangerous and that what we think and do must be
grounded instead in who we actually are jibes perfectly with Oppen's statement:
"You are existential in the sense that you do what you do and that is the answer....
Simply, that you are yourself." " - Stephen Fredman
Psalm - George Oppen
In the small beauty of the forest
The wild deer bedding down --
That they are there!
Their eyes
Effortless, the soft lips
Nuzzle and the alien small teeth
Tear at the grass
The roots of it
Dangle from their mouths
Scattering earth in the strange woods.
They who are there.
Their paths
Nibbled thru the fields, the leaves that shade them
Hang in the distances
Of sun
The small nouns
Crying faith
In this in which the wild deer
Startle, and stare out.
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions