The Opening of the Field

The most powerful poems here are those dealing with language and art/creation. It's an interesting and complex collection, but one which requires concentration and an acceptance of complexity. I'm not always sure that Duncan isn't more concerned with experimentation and language-play than any meaning, but there are Some poems here which I know I'll be returning to---those poems alone made it well worth my time.

Dear Opening of the Feild, you are a prayerful and extensive book. You are a fucking book. You get the book the opening the measure. You hammer it to the wall end rhymed allude to. You fly out. Big city of time on the grass, tangled in the feet of the grass. How inspiring to get the drift, reading on saturday on the ships of July, the scissors of the water and the pouring out of time. Into this book, R. Duncan, yours dawn.