Tag: smoke

• smoking with george oppen

  Some poems are capable of tapping into the connotations or “languages” around a word and making them meet. This week’s poem, “If It All Went Up in Smoke” by George Oppen, for example, does a great job of taking the languages of  the word “smoke” and blurring them to create a visceral metaphor. First, there […]

  José Angel Araguz

  June 30, 2017

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