July 4th, Mythic Patterns, and Proceeding by Clues
In “Proceeding by Clues,” his contribution to A Sense of the Whole, Robert Hass oberserves (p. 153): On the next page [of Snyder’s “The Making of Mountains and Rivers Without End” (M&R 153–158)] he tells us, usefully, that he began the poem on April 8, 1956, and though he doesn’t claim to have finished it […]
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