This publication takes up the utopian hope for an ideal language of phrases that supply direct expression to the true, identified in Western proposal as Cratylism, and its influence at the social visions and poetic initiatives of 3 of the main intellectually formidable of yank writers: Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson.
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