Passages (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Edward Howard Duncan
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Language or languages, Memory, Creation myth, Mythology or myths, Poetry or poets
As in the case of “The Structure of Rime” series, Duncan would not permit these poems to be collected into one volume. Indeed, he was so vehement about their nonsequential structure that he stopped numbering them after “Passages 37” so that readers would not be tempted to see any kind of evolving progressive structure. They share certain common functions with “The Structure of Rime” sections but are almost purely poetry, and they can be viewed as a poetic counterpart enacting the poetic process that “The Structure of Rime” sections probe and discuss.
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