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Invisible Green IX. (A Column).

Publisher	World Poetry, Inc.
Publication	The American Poetry Review
Subject	Literature/writing
Format	Magazine/Journal
ISSN	0360-3709
Issues per Year	6
Volume	32
Issue	4
Published	2003-07-01

Role	Type	Name
Person	Criticism and interpretation	Ezra Pound
Author	n/a	Donald Revell
Person	Criticism and interpretation	Henry David Thoreau

--for Stephen, for David, for Arthur, for Elizabeth

"Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green."

--Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 193

THIS IS THE NINTH AND LAST OF THESE LITTLE essays. Time to rest now, and just enough time to show an ecstasy consistent with repose. I have a ready mind to turn to the Pastoral.

It is March 4th, Mardi Gras, 2003 and, Reader, you have a strange advantage of me. I am writing in the month whose name means war, whose name is taken from the god of the most ungodly practice...

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