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+=== From 'America as Woman' (SaF 112) ===
+**Jerome Rothenberg & George Quasha**
+<blockquote>We have encountered that woman-presence before-a nearly universal myth of "Mother Earth," or of the land, that which we wrench from Earth, with pleasure at first, then in a dream of losses endlessly repeated. She is Blake's Jerusalem (and his Oothoon-Enitharmon, as America herself): the one the Jews called the Shekhina, the Gnostics called Sophia, the Tantrists called Goddess-of-Wisdom-Whose-Substance-Is-Desire and in her terrifying aspect, Kali...
+In the story of American poetry she turns up often. She is earth or god, wisdom or muse--or that woman always one town ahead of our pursuit, say, or like the poor-old-soul of Bukka White's blues, singing
+I ain't got nobody / to take me to this train / Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm / Mmmmmmmmmm mm mmmm... </blockquote>
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