by hefnerbe | Jan 31, 2011 | Featured, VIII. Atlantis
Go to Atlantis “The Atlantis theme (that of Eternity) is the transmuted voice of the nickel-slot pianola, and this voice alternates with that of the derelict sailor and the description of the action. The airy regatta of phantom clipper ships seen from Brooklyn Bridge...
by hefnerbe | Jan 31, 2011 | Featured, VII. The Tunnel
Go to The Tunnel “To descend, now, into the subway is to go down to the heart of that ubiquitous death, to experience the contemporary world fully and unevasively as a kind of frozen hell.” – R.W.B Lewis
by hefnerbe | Jan 31, 2011 | Featured, VI. Quaker Hill
Go to Quaker Hill “Is an attempt to focus the cosmic journey once more upon the person of the poet.” – Waldo Frank
by hefnerbe | Jan 31, 2011 | Featured, V. Three Songs
Go to Three Songs “Part Five, Three Songs, is a pause for humbler music, upon the variable theme of woman” (Frank xxxiii).
by hefnerbe | Jan 31, 2011 | Featured, IV. Cape Hatteras
Go to Cape Hatteras “Cape Hatteras at first invokes the geologic age that lifted the Appalachians above the waters; the cosmic struggle sharpens into the birth of the airplane–industrial America; the ‘red, eternal flesh of Pocahontus’ gives us,...
by hefnerbe | Jan 31, 2011 | Featured, III. Cutty Sark
Go to Cutty Sark “A fantasy on the period of the whalers and clipper ships.. The form of the poem may seem erratic, but it is meant to present the hallucinations incident to rum-drinking in a South Street dive, as well as the lurch of a boat in heavy...
