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In Oklahoma

In Oklahoma Carter Revard Western American Literature, Volume 35, Number 2, Summer 2000, p. 124 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2000.0003 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/534679/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 18:15 GMT from JHU Libraries In O k l a h o m a C a r t e r R e v a r d W hen you leave a Real City, as Gertrude Stein did, and go to Oakland, as she did, you can say, as she did, there is no there, there. W hen you are a Hartford insurance executive, as Wallace Stevens was, and you have never been to Oklahoma, as he had not, you can invent people to dance there, as he did, and you can nam e them Bonnie and Josie. But a T H E R E depends on how, in the beginning, the wind breathes upon its surface. Shh: amethyst, sapphire. Lead. Crystal mirror. See, a cow-pond in Oklahoma. U nder willows now, so the Osage m an fishing there is in the shade. A bob white whistles from his fencepost, a hundred yards south o f the pond. A muskrat-head draws a nest o f http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature University of Nebraska Press

In Oklahoma

Revard, Carter
Western American Literature , Volume 35 (2) – Oct 4, 2017
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Carter Revard Western American Literature, Volume 35, Number 2, Summer 2000, p. 124 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2000.0003 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/534679/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 18:15 GMT from JHU Libraries In O k l a h o m a C a r t e r R e v a r d W hen you leave a Real City, as Gertrude Stein did, and go to Oakland, as she did, you can say, as she did, there is no there, there. W hen you are a Hartford insurance executive, as Wallace Stevens was, and you have never been to Oklahoma, as he had not, you can invent people to dance there, as he did, and you can nam e them Bonnie and Josie. But a T H E R E depends on how, in the beginning, the wind breathes upon its surface. Shh: amethyst, sapphire. Lead. Crystal mirror. See, a cow-pond in Oklahoma. U nder willows now, so the Osage m an fishing there is in the shade. A bob white whistles from his fencepost, a hundred yards south o f the pond. A muskrat-head draws a nest o f

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Published: Oct 4, 2017

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