George Oppen: Selected Poems Daniel Levin Becker

George Oppen: Selected Poems Daniel Levin BeckerGeorge Oppen A selection of innovative poems by the groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize winner. 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

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’ In these lyric enactments

Gonzalez’s poems draw us nearer to our own aliveness

Latin America

recombining the genetic structure of texts from the Shakespearean sonnet and the fairy tale to airline safety instructions and unsolicited mail

the memory with unpublishable radiance

With a ferocity both musical and analytic

' – Divya Victor

and all of its lowly weeds

Victoria Chang

Jean Frémon

suggesting that the crux of poetry is the art of not quite touching