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• Abbe, George
  You and Contemporary Poetry
  Richard R. Smith, Noone House, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1965, Cloth, , First Edition, Fine /Very Good
  
  

  ix, 134. Chapters include: The Modern Idiom, Image and Diction, Rhythm and Sound, Form, Idea, Poem and Poet, Poem and Reader, Glossary, Index to Poems. Poems by Eberman, Bjerknes, Garrick, Simpson, Gibson, Williams, Shapiro, Master, Ferlinghetti, Jarrell, Wilbur, Ginsberg, Jeffer, Harshbarger, Turkay, Lipton, Weston, Bishop, Holmes, Pillin, Eberhart, Cummings, Moore, Roethke, Kinnell, Patchen, and others are quoted in full in the text.

  

"WHAT DO WE PLANT?"

What do we plant when we plant the tree?
We plant the ship, which will cross the sea.
We plant the mast to carry the sails;
We plant the planks to withstand the gales -
The keel, the keelson, the beam, the knee;
We plant the ship when we plant the tree.

What do we plant when we plant the tree?
We plant the houses for you and me.
We plant the rafters, the shingles, the floors,
We plant the studding, the lath, the doors,
The beams and siding, all parts that be;
We plant the house when we plant the tree.

What do we plant when we plant the tree?
A thousand things that we daily see;
We plant the spire that out-towers the crag,
We plant the staff for our country's flag,
We plant the shade, from the hot sun free;
We plant all these when we plant the tree.