New Collected Poems: Edited With an Introduction and Notes By Michael Davidson : Preface By Eliot Weinberger

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oppen, George

Contributor:

Preface, Michael Davidson, Editor.

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions, 2002.

Summary:

"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poet's books published in his lifetime (1908-84), as well as his previously uncollected poems and a selection of his unpublished work.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, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, has long been acknowledged as one of America's foremost modernists. [this book] replaces the earlier 'Collected Poems' of 1975"--Bookjacket.

Contents:

List of Illustrations

Preface by Eliot Weinberger

Introduction by Michael Davidson

A Note on the Text

Acknowledgments

Discrete Series (1934)

The Materials (1962)

This in Which (1965)

Of Being Numerous (1968)

Seascape: Needles Eye (1972)

Myth of the Blaze (1972-1975)

Primitive (1978)

Uncollected Published Poems

Selected Unpublished Poems

Notes

Index ofTitles and First Lines.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.