Research Catalog

Title

George Oppen : selected poems / edited, and with an introduction, by Robert Creeley.

Author

Oppen, George

Publication

New York, NY : New Directions Books, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005
• New Directions Publishing.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xvi, 205 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

"Offers a selection of Oppen's poetry from all his books published during his lifetime ... in addition, this volume includes Oppen's only known essay, 'A mind's own place'; 'Twenty-six fragments' Oppen scribbled on envelopes and scraps of paper found posted on his wall after his death, edited by Stephen Cope; as well as a chronology and bibliography put together by Rachel Blau DuPlessis"--Back cover.

Alternative Title

Selected poems

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Poetry

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poems.
• Poésie.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-201) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

from Discrete Series (1934) -- "The knowledge ..." -- "The edge of the ocean," -- from The Materials (1962) -- Eclogue -- Image of the Engine -- Return -- From Disaster -- Blood from the Stone -- Birthplace: New Rochelle -- Myself I Sing -- Stranger's Child -- Product -- From a Photograph -- Time of the Missile -- O Western Wind -- The Crowded Countries of the Bomb -- Part of the Forest -- Pedestrian -- Leviathan -- from This In Which (1965) -- Philai Te Kou Philai -- Psalm -- Five Poems about Poetry -- Guest Rooms -- Giovanni's Rape of the Sabine Women at Wildenstein's -- A Language of New York -- Boy's Room -- Penobscot -- Stree -- Of Thi s All Things ... -- Bahamas -- Alpine -- Quotations -- Red Hook: December -- The Bicycles and the Apex -- Monument -- Niece -- A Narrative -- Pro Nobis -- World, World -- from Of Being Numerous (1968) -- Of Being Numerous -- A Kind of Garden: A Poem for my Sister -- A Theological Definition -- Power, the Enchanted World -- Ballad -- from Seascape: Needle's Eye (1972) -- From a Phrase of Simone Weil's and Some Words of Hegel's -- Animula -- West -- Of Hours -- Song, The Winds of Downhill -- Some San Francisco Poems -- from Myth of the Blaze (1972-1975) -- Latitude, Longitude -- Myth of the Blaze -- Semite -- The Little Pin: Fragment -- from Primitive (1978) -- A Political Poem -- Disasters -- The Poem -- Populist -- Neighbors.

ISBN

0811215571 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003010670

OCLC

• 52251079
• SCSB-12876269

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library