What I've written here about Island Road applies equally if not more so to Stubborn Grew. In this poem, fictional Berryman's "Henry" carnivalizes epic poetry, underlines its immediacy (the narrative revolves around itself, is "personalized", on a table in a coffeeshop in Fox Point). The final 25-pp section - the "end" of "Henry" (a summa or Viconian ricorso of the previous sections, the entire book translated into FinneWakean) - was finished in the early hours of Good Friday, 1999. ie. "Henry" absorbs/resurrects Finnegan on the cardinal "last day". Thus poetry records presence - grafts a literary Eternal to a particular date & time, a "now":

Stub born
grew the
rose.