In addition to addressing Whitman and Poe, this poem exhorts the reader to "stick your name on a patent signboard" in "Powhatan's Daughter" and adopts the perspective of Christopher Columbus in "Ave Maria."
In one section of this work, "legs waken salads in the brain" while "you pick your blonde out neatly through the smoke"; that section is the second of three variations on a woman variously called Mary and Magdalene. Its fourth section asks if "infinity / Be still the same as when" a certain figure "walked the beach / Near Paumanok," while the speaker of its penultimate section encounters a "visage" with "eyes like agate lanterns" and asks that figure "did you deny the ticket?" In addition to addressing Whitman and Poe, this poem exhorts the reader to "stick your name on a patent signboard" in "Powhatan's Daughter" and adopts the perspective of Christopher Columbus in "Ave Maria." It opens with a "Proem" dedicated to the title object and contains sections called "The Tunnel," "Cape Hatteras," and "Cutty Sark." For 10 points, identify this modernist epic about a Brooklyn landmark, a work of Hart Crane.
In one section of this work, "legs waken salads in the brain" while "you pick your blonde out neatly through the smoke"; that section is the second of three variations on a woman variously called Mary and Magdalene.
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