The Collected Poems Of George Oppen

Author : George Oppen
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811218058

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New Collected Poems by George Oppen Pdf

"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poet's books published in his lifetime (1908-84), as well as his previously uncollected poems and a selection of his unpublished work." "Editor Michael Davidson has written an introduction to the poet's life and work and supplies generous notes that give readers a deeper understanding of the background of the individual books and references in the poems. Essayist Eliot Weinberger provides a personal remembrance of the poet in his preface, "Oppen Then." This new, revised paperback edition also includes an extraordinary CD of the poet reading from each of his poetry books. Culled from obscure, rarely heard recordings of Oppen when he was in New York, San Francisco, and London at different times in his life, the CD adds a unique dimension to the lifework of one of America's finest poets."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : George Oppen
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811215571

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George Oppen by George Oppen Pdf

A selection of innovative poems by the groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize winner.

Author : George Oppen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCAL:B3491184

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The Collected Poems of George Oppen by George Oppen Pdf

Author : George Oppen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0520941063

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Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers by George Oppen Pdf

This is the first comprehensive critical edition of the unpublished writings of Pulitzer Prize-winning objectivist poet George Oppen (1908-1984). Editor Stephen Cope has made a judicious selection of Oppen's extant writings outside of poetry, including the essay "The Mind's Own Place" as well as "Twenty-Six Fragments," which were found on the wall of Oppen's study after his death. Most notable are Oppen's "Daybooks," composed in the decade following his return to poetry in 1958. Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers is an inspiring portrait of this essential writer and a testament to the creative process itself.

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571264179

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Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath Pdf

This comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. The poems are drawn from the only collection Plath published while alive, The Colossus, as well as from posthumous collections Ariel, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees. The text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes and followed by notes and comments on individual poems. There is also an appendix containing fifty poems from Sylvia Plath's juvenilia. This collection was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. 'For me, the most important literary event of 1981 has been the publication, eighteen years after her death, of Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems, confirming her as one of the most powerful and lavishly gifted poets of our time.' A. Alvarez in the Observer

Author : George Oppen
Publisher : New Directions Poetry Pamphlets
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0811226913

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21 Poems by George Oppen Pdf

Here put your head, that desires nothing except familiarly: There your feet, bending your knees so that, bare (I remember from childhood), they would smell salt-sweet. --from 21 Poems

Author : George Oppen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1391530334

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George Oppen by George Oppen Pdf

Author : Henry Weinfield
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587298509

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The Music of Thought in the Poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk by Henry Weinfield Pdf

George Oppen (1908–1984), born into a prosperous German Jewish family, began his career as a protégé of Ezra Pound and a member of the Objectivist circle of poets; he eventually broke with Pound and became a member of the Communist party before returning to poetry more than twenty-five years later. William Bronk (1918–1999), by contrast, a descendant of the first European families in New York, was influenced by the works of Shakespeare, the King James Bible, and the work of the New England writers of the American Renaissance. Despite differences in background and orientation, the two men formed a deep friendship and shared a similar existential outlook. As Henry Weinfield demonstrates in this searching and original study, Oppen and Bronk are extraordinary thinkers in poetry who struggled with central questions of meaning and value and whose thought acquires the resonance of music in their work. These major writers created poetry of enduring value that has exerted an increasing influence on younger generations of poets. From his careful readings of Oppen’s and Bronk’s poetry to his fascinating examination of the letters they exchanged, Weinfield provides important aesthetic, epistemological, and historical insights into their poetry and poetic careers. In bringing together for the first time the work of two of the most important poets of the postwar generation, The Music of Thought not only illuminates their poetry but also raises important questions about American literary history and the categories in terms of which it has generally been interpreted.

Author : Burton Hatlen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015000636715

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George Oppen, Man and Poet by Burton Hatlen Pdf

Author : George Oppen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106009548204

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Discrete Series by George Oppen Pdf

Author : George Oppen
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822310244

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The Selected Letters of George Oppen by George Oppen Pdf

Objectivist poet George Oppen (1908–1984), along with his contemporaries Lorine Niedecker, Charles Reznikoff, and Carl Rakoski, provide an important bridge between the vanguard modernist American poets and the later works of poets such as Robert Creeley. In work often compounded by the populist urbanity of city lives, the Objectivists explored the social statements poetry can make. Because Oppen wrote only one essay and one essay-review, his correspondence, in effect, constitutes his essays. Oppen is emerging as one of the major poets of the postwar era; he was the recipient of an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the PEN/West Rediscovery Award, and a Senior Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His collectionOf Being Numerousreceived the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. These working papers include a rich correspondence, letters which provide access to the sustained, perceptive body of critical and aesthetic thinking of Oppen’s poetic career. Provocative and witty comments on poetry and poetics, especially interesting for the development of an Objectivist aesthetics, and shrewd, deeply felt assessments about the politics of the twentieth century and its moral dilemmas are some of the issues attended to. This edition offers primary documentation about an influential poetics, a little-known movement, and its active figures. Given the aggressive studies of the politics of canon-formation, the interest in describing a historical context for individual literary achievement, and current debates about mainstream poetry, the rethinking of the Objectivist movement, and the collection of documents contributing to its poetics, is an important achievement in literary scholarship.

Author : Peter Nicholls
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191527333

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George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism by Peter Nicholls Pdf

Regard for George Oppen's poetry has been growing steadily over the last decade. Peter Nicholls's study offers a timely opportunity to engage with a body of work which can be both luminously simple and intriguingly opaque. Nicholls charts Oppen's commitment to Marxism and his later explorations of a 'poetics of being' inspired by Heidegger and Existentialism, providing detailed accounts of each of the poet's books. He is the first critic to draw extensively on the Oppen archive, with its thousands of pages of largely unpublished notes and drafts for poems; in doing so, he is able to map the distinctive contours of Oppen's poetic thinking and to investigate the complex origins of many of his poems. Oppen emerges from this study as a writer of mercurial intensities for whom every poem constitutes a 'beginning again', a freeing of the mind from thoughts known in advance. A strikingly innovative and challenging poetics results from Oppen's attempt to avoid what he regards as the errors of the modernist avant-garde and to create instead a designedly 'impoverished' aesthetic which keeps poetry close to the grain of experience and to the political and ethical dilemmas it constantly poses.

Author : Naomi Replansky
Publisher : Black Sparrow Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781574232158

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Collected Poems by Naomi Replansky Pdf

Nominated for the National Book Award in 1952, Naomi Replansky's first book Ring Song dazzled critics with its candor and freshness of language. Here at long last is the new and collected work of a lifetime by a writer hailed as "one of the most brilliant American poets" by George Oppen. Replansky is a poet whose verse combines the compression of Emily Dickinson, the passion of Anna Akhmatova, and the music of W.H. Auden. These poems, which Marie Ponsot calls "sixty years of a free woman's song," are Replansky's hymns to the struggle for justice and equality and to the enduring beauty of life in our dangerous world.

Author : Richard Swigg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786491131

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Speaking with George Oppen by Richard Swigg Pdf

Seventeen interviews with George and Mary Oppen, conducted between 1968 and 1987, are here brought together for the first time. Two are fresh discoveries, while re-audited recordings of other interviews have given a new authoritative accuracy to the text. These conversations provide a unique account of a major American poet's evolution, through the Depression, war, exile and a return to poetry after two decades of silence. They span Oppen's early years as an Objectivist, his assessments of such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, and his views on the merits of his later contemporaries Allen Ginsberg, Jerome Rothenburg and others. Above all, it is Oppen's detailed commentary on his own writing, and his explanations of how individual poems unfold, which gives special importance to these new collected interviews.

Author : Eliot Weinberger
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811226219

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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways) by Eliot Weinberger Pdf

A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s commentary on the successive translations of Wang Wei’s little poem illustrates, with succinct clarity, not only the evolution of the art of translation in the modern period but at the same time the changes in poetic sensibility.”