The Selected Poems is a unique selection of Oppen's work from the seven books he published during his lifetime. Edited by one of our most respected contemporary poets, Robert Creeley, who provides an informative introduction, George Oppen's Selected Poems includes Oppen's only known essay, "A Mind's Own Place," as well as "Twenty-Six Fragments" which Oppen wrote on envelopes and scraps of paper and posted to his wall, edited by Stephen Cope. Also incorporated is a helpful chronology and bibliography of his writings by ...
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The Selected Poems is a unique selection of Oppen's work from the seven books he published during his lifetime. Edited by one of our most respected contemporary poets, Robert Creeley, who provides an informative introduction, George Oppen's Selected Poems includes Oppen's only known essay, "A Mind's Own Place," as well as "Twenty-Six Fragments" which Oppen wrote on envelopes and scraps of paper and posted to his wall, edited by Stephen Cope. Also incorporated is a helpful chronology and bibliography of his writings by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, celebrated editor of Oppen's letters. On his death, Hugh Kenner wrote, "George Oppen, gentlest of men...prized what took time, found the grain of materials, exacted accuracy." Oppen's Selected Poems is the perfect text for teaching and a remarkable window into a world of lasting light and clarity.
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Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear and creases to cover. A bit of spine slant. 182 pages. The first selected poems from Creeley's career, drawing on collections including For Love, Words, and Pieces, and showcasing his spare, enjambed lyrics about love, relationships, and the act of perception, rooted in the Black Mountain poetics he developed with Charles Olson. Keywords: For Love Poems, Black Mountain Poets, Minimalist Poetry, Words 1967, Pieces 1969, Charles Olson, Projective Verse, Divers Press, Arlington Massachusetts, Postwar Poetics, New American Poetry, Elliptical Style.
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Fine in fine jacket. Octavo, 182pp. A crisp clean copy, about fine, just a shade sunned along the top of the boards and dust jacket. Tiny razor slash to the rear panel (as in other cases, likely from a bookstore employee carelessly opening the box from the publisher when new). A meaningful association copy, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Creeley on the title page to his close friend, the artist R. B. Kitaj and his wife, Sandra, not long after publication: "For Ron and Sandra, with my love, Bob. London 1/18/77." Creeley has also drawn a small doodle. In 1966, Kitaj issued a series of portrait screen prints, whose subjects were mostly Black Mountain-associated poets and artists. The first print in the series is of Creeley.
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