"From the Latin "Speculum": The Modern Poet as Philologist
Michael Davidson
One of the more unusual gestures to be found in contemporary poems is what could called lexical insert. The poet turns dictionary order provide a gloss on word or phrase, etymology being included as part poem itself. In Robert Duncan's At Loom (Passages 2), for example, words warp and shuttle are subjected such an etymological seeks find roots these something sensuous richness they once retained:
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