Details

ISBN-10: 0811218058
ISBN-13: 9780811218054
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 11/01/2008
Dimensions: 9.04" L, 6.02" W, 1.01" H

New Collected Poems [With CD]

Editor: Michael Davidson
Preface by: Eliot Weinberger

Paperback

Price: $24.95

Overview

George Oppen’s New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poet’s books published in his lifetime (1908-84), as well as his previously uncollected poems and a selection of his unpublished work. Oppen, whose writing was championed by Ezra Pound when it was first published by The Objectivist Press in the 1930s, has become one of America’s most admired poets. In 1969 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his collection Of Being Numerous, which The New Yorker recently said is “unmatched by any book of American poetry since.” The New Collected Poems is edited by Michael Davidson of the University of California at San Diego, who also writes an introduction about 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 keys to references in the poems. The award-winning essayist and translator Eliot Weinberger offers a personal remembrance of the poet in his preface, “Oppen Then.” This newly revised paperback edition also includes a generous CD of the poet reading from each of his poetry collections.

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A first rate edition of Oppen's poetry. His poetry serves as a model of modernist ethics as well as aesthetics.–William Doreski "Harvard Review"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811218058
ISBN-13: 9780811218054
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 11/01/2008
Dimensions: 9.04" L, 6.02" W, 1.01" H
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