Abstract
One of the more unusual gestures to be found in contemporary poems is what could be called the lexical insert. The poet turns to the dictionary in order to provide a gloss on a word or phrase, the etymology being included as part of the poem itself. In Robert Duncan's At the Loom (Passages 2), for example, the words warp and shuttle are subjected to such an etymological gloss as the poet seeks to find in the roots of these words something of the sensuous richness they once retained:
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