"The Meadow" appeared wit...

"The Meadow" appeared with couple other poems by Michael Palmer in the Autumn 1977 issue. PALMER acknowledges us:

"The Meadow" was written as homage as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but to Francis Ponge ("Le Pr") and to Robert Duncan ("Often I Am Permitted to go [i]or[/i] come back to a Meadow," the opening metrical composition of his The Opening of the Field). A homage, then, to the "field of resistance and attraction," one as well as the other linguistic and political, that numbers at its most challenging depicts Besides citing Ponge and Duncan, and deriving its form from the particular seriality of Ponge the work