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Sign: Berkeley - Berkeley Poetry Walk - "The Impossible Poem" a song by George Oppen

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2000 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
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THE IMPOSSIBLE POEM

Climbing the peak of Tamalpais the loose
Gravel underfoot

Ana the city shining with the tremendous wrinkles
In the hills and the winding of the bay
Behind it, it faces the bent ocean

Streetcars
Rocked thru the city and the winds
Combed their clumsy sides
In clumsy times

Sierras withering
Behind the storefronts

And sanity the roadside weed
Dreams of sports and sportsmanship

In the lucid towns paralyzed
Under the truck tires
Shall we relinquish

Sanity to redeem
Fragments and fragmentary
Histories in the towns and the temperate streets
Too shallow still to drown in or to mourn
The courageous and precarious children.

-George Oppen
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Berklee’s poetry Walk was laid in October 2003 along Edison Street between Shattuck and Milvia Streets. The route includes 128 metal plates with excerpts from songs, each of which is related in one way or another to the city of Berkeley.

The current plaque features a poem written by the American poet George Oppen (1908-1984), who lived in San Francisco and won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry




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