America, Plunged Into the Dark Furrows of The Sea Again: "Seconds"
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In 1963, the poet James Wright published The Branch Will Not Break. As is so much of his work, the book is a chronicle of loneliness and the attempt to come to terms with the failures of his life. It's also a picturing of a post-mythical, post-industrial Midwest, a landscape of abandoned quarries and empty fields and drunken men brawling on snowy street corners that stands in for America as a whole.
America, Plunged Into the Dark Furrows of The Sea Again: "Seconds"
America, Plunged Into the Dark Furrows of The…
America, Plunged Into the Dark Furrows of The Sea Again: "Seconds"
In 1963, the poet James Wright published The Branch Will Not Break. As is so much of his work, the book is a chronicle of loneliness and the attempt to come to terms with the failures of his life. It's also a picturing of a post-mythical, post-industrial Midwest, a landscape of abandoned quarries and empty fields and drunken men brawling on snowy street corners that stands in for America as a whole.