New Collected Poems
by George Oppen
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George Oppen'sNew 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poet's books published in his lifetime (1908-84), as well as his previously uncollected poems and a selection of his unpublished work.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 collectionOf Being Numerous, whichThe New Yorker recently said is "unmatched by any book show more 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 agenerous CD of the poet reading from each of his poetry collections. show lessTags
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I don't know if I would be a different person if I never read George Oppen, but ever since I was introduced to his poetry, I turn to it all the time. The way I feel about certain poems of his is probably similar to the way my Christian sister feels about certain Psalms.
I'm not as much of a fan of the poems from the '70s, but even those were still good to read.
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