author: al filreis

... poems such as " The Sun Bathers " : the thaw- ing tramp , the " begrimed " war vet , the " fat negress . " 35 So , too , in a poem showing Oppen at his most avidly proletarian , a steam - shovel operator , satisfyingly steadfast in ...

... Incident” alludes to Countee Cullen's famous poem “Incident,” first published in 1925, and it precedes Natasha Trethewey's poem of the same title.1 However, while Cullen's and Trethewey's “incidents” concern menacing acts of racism ...