Research Catalog

Title

Thinking poetics : essays on George Oppen / edited by Steve Shoemaker.

Publication

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors

Shoemaker, Steve

Description

xxvi, 283 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Modern and contemporary poetics

Uniform Title

Modern and contemporary poetics.

Subject

Oppen, George > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Working Papers / The Mind Thinking -- Palimtexts: Postmodern Poetry and the Material Text / Michael Davidson -- II. On Discrete Series / Of the World, Weather-Swept -- Preliminary to a Close Reading of George Oppens Discrete Series / Lyn Hejinian -- Discrete Series and the Posthuman City / Steve Shoemaker -- III. Among the Philosophers -- Oppens Heidegger / Peter Nicholls -- Finding the Phenomenal Oppen / Forrest Gander -- IV. Two Wars -- One among Rubble: George Oppen and World War II / Kristin Prevallet -- The Air of Atrocity: Of Being Numerous and the Vietnam War / John Lowney -- V. Receptions -- Third-Phase Objectivism / Ron Silliman -- George Oppen and the Anthologies / John Taggart -- Convictions Net of Branches / Michael Heller -- Hinge Picture (on George Oppen) / Charles Bernstein -- Uncannily in the Open: In Light of Oppen / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- George Oppen: A Radical Practice (excerpt) / Susan Thackrey -- if it fails -- / Theodore Enslin -- Excerpts from Because the Known and the Unknown Touch: A Reading of Oppens Of Being Numerous / Henry Weinfield.

ISBN

• 9780817316624 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0817316620 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780817355463 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0817355464 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009012616

OCLC

317778088

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library