Livro

O livro de Robert Duncan sobre H. D.

Go write yourself a book

Go write yourself a book and put
therein first things that might define a world:

There's a great clock upon which the pole star
will return, turn,
and return. Cheops' stone mountain's
a lyric gesture. Homer
underwrites not adventure
but the way back home
before Odysseus may shed
a life's disguise.

Robert Duncan, "Under Ground", The Opening of the Field, New Directions Paperbook, 1973.

Keeping the rhyme

By stress and syllable
by change and rhyme and contour
we let the long line pace even awkward to its period.

The short line
we refine and keep for candor.

This we remember:
ember of the fire
catches the word if we but hear
("We must understand what is happening")
and springs to desire,
a bird-right light
sound.

This is the Yule-log that warms December.
This is new grass that springs from the ground.

Robert Duncan, The Opening of the Field, New Directions Paperbook, 1973.

(The light foot hears you and the brightness begins)

the information flows
that is yearning. A line of Pindar
moves from the area of my lamp
toward morning.

In the dawn that is nowhere
I have seen the willful children

clockwise and counter-clockwise turning.

Robert Duncan in "A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar", The Opening of the Field, New Directions Paperbook, 1973

Das ist das

"I make poetry as other man make war or make love or make states or revolutions: to exercise my faculties at large."

Robert Duncan, na contracapa de The Opening of The Field (New Directions Paperbook, 1973)