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New Collected Poems

by George Oppen

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ISBN13: 9780811214889
ISBN10: 0811214885
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George Oppen's New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poems published in books during his lifetime (1908-84), as well as previously uncollected poems and also a selection of his unpublished work. Oppen, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, has long been acknowledged as one of America's foremost modernists. A member of the Objectivist group that flourished in the 1930s (which also included William Carlos Williams, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, and Louis Zukofsky), he was hailed by Ezra Pound as "a serious craftsman, a sensibility which is not every man's sensibility and which has not been got out of any other man's book." Oppen's New Collected Poems (which replaces New Direction's earlier, smaller Collected Poems of 1975) is edited by Michael Davidson of the University of California at San Diego, who also writes an introduction to the poet's life and work and supplies generous notes that will give interested readers an understanding of the background of the individual books as well as references in the poems.

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Nathan Wirth, January 7, 2008 (view all comments by Nathan Wirth)
This volume constitutes the most complete collection of Oppen's work to date-- many poems of which have not been anthologized until now. The centerpiece of the collection is Oppen's wonderful book-length poem-- Of Being Numerous. This Pulitzer-prize-winning poem is concerned with the dilemma of seeing the world through the eyes of solitude versus seeing the world through the eyes of what it is to be of the numerous. Throughout the poem's forty sections the reader is introduced to the meaning of what it is to be "of being numerous," warned about the shipwreck of isolation, thrust into the madness of war with all of its atrocities, reminded of the limits of language, introduced to clarity, and finally called upon to realize the necessity for compassion. A heartily recommended read!
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780811214889
Editor:
Davidson, Michael
Introduction:
Davidson, Michael
Author:
Oppen, George
Author:
Davidson, Michael
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Location:
New York
Subject:
American
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Poetry-A to Z
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Volume:
no. 1
Publication Date:
20011131
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
9.30x6.32x1.11 in. 1.79 lbs.

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