Its position as a sound poem. We find in the
opening seven lines of “Bomb” the thunder of
Zeus and Thor, an array of historical and
cinematographic characters from Da Vinci to
biblical David. Here is the robust reach of the
poem and the placement of Corso as pantocrator.
Later Oppenheimer, Fermi and Einstein appear.
Gary Snyder tells us in his essay "poetry and
the primitive" that "The primitive worldview, far-
out scientific knowledge and the poetic
imagination are related forces which may help if
not save the world or humanity" (Jones, 1985).
This is indelibly Corso, however, Snyder goes
further defining Corso as the shaman-poet by
stating “The Shaman-poet is simply the man
whose mind reaches easily out into all manners
and shapes and other lives and gives song to
dreams". "Bomb" can be seen as the ultimate
subconscious archetype, one which informs our
most vital perceptions at the level of our faculty of
sensibility. The shaman-poet ideations of Corso
again resound to the fore when he states "I am
manifold…I imagine myself to be a shark-toothed
sleep…a man-eater of dreams". Corso, in the midst
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