Sam Heaps put out a call for writers to explain George Oppen’s “Of Being Numerous.” Oppen was one of the early poets C & I could love together. His poems can seem crystalline, oblique, yet still somehow warm, and we both admired his integrity. Rereading the poem after Sam’s call, I felt it explained more of this quaking moment than I could explain the poem. But I shaped some things in dialogue with lines from the poem.
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JOE HALL 