Roots and Branches
Duncan, Robert20 USD
Date
1969
Category
Poetry
Description
Robert Duncan's second major book of poetry. The poet has said of himself "I am not an experimentalist or an inventor, but a derivative poet, drawing my art from the resources given by a generation of masters..."
Excerpt
At one time our mother’s brother, Set, was “father”
and taught us—what? ruining
our innocence. The great boat of the gods
penetrates the thick meat,
sending quick nerves out that are tongues of light
at the boundaries. Foot, hand,
lips: a graph in Scientific American, September, 1960,
shows he design of sensory and motor intelligences.
We are so much mouth, mask, and hand,
the hidden plan of volition can be read
(a secret that is presented to be seen
remaining secret) in the closed palm,
in the human face.
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