Casual and candid, reflecting the social revolution in America that was to reach crisis proportions in the late 1960s. Oppenheimer’s poetry is located in the moments of a daily life. In his poem "The Bath," the acts of living, so to speak, are simple, for instance the act of taking a bath. His lover’s bathing, Oppenheimer finds, is a ritual albeit one unremarked upon but for his verse—and yet, he humorously points out, "she wants him" (the poem's persona thinks) "unbathed"; he is gratified by her desire. The routine of life is celebrated in the poem by this nexus between the two of them; there is "her continuous bathing. / in his tub. in his water. wife." Black Mountain College was the soil for virtually all later experimental poetry in America and much of America’s later-century art and music. Grounded in the poetry of Pound and Williams—as Creeley writes in his homage to Williams, "For W.C.W.," "and and becomes // just so"—as well as demonstrating great sympathy for the Objectivist poetry of Louis Zukofsky and the others of this school, the later Black Mountain writers continued a tradition of exact perception and an avoidance of metaphor, and of a celebration of the individual that would also emerge in BEAT poetry. The Black Mountain contribution to American poetry and poetics was not merely a new version of these other movements, but rather was original and arguably the pivotal moment in modern American poetic history.