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This is the first comprehensive critical edition of the unpublished writings of Pulitzer Prize-winning objectivist poet George Oppen (1908-1984). Editor Stephen Cope has made a judicious selection of Oppen's extant writings outside of poetry, including the essay "The Mind's Own Place" as well as "Twenty-Six Fragments," which were found on the wall of Oppen's study after his death. Most notable are Oppen's "Daybooks," composed in the decade following his return to poetry in 1958. Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers is an inspiring portrait of this essential writer and a testament to the creative process itself.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 296
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
28 January 2008
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520252325
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
“A book that will undoubtedly deepen readers’ experience and understanding of Oppen, and broaden the scope of Oppen scholarship.”
George Oppen (1908–1984) was born in New York and died in San Francisco. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968 for Of Being Numerous. His work is available in New Collected Poems, edited by Michael Davidson (2002); Selected Poems, edited by Robert Creeley (2003); and Selected Letters of George Oppen, edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis (1990). Stephen Cope received his PhD in 2005 from the University of California, San Diego, where he was a research fellow at the Archive for New Poetry, where Oppen's papers are housed. He has taught at universities in California, Iowa, and Ohio.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Textual Apparatus
PROSE
Three Poets
The Mind’s Own Place
A Review of David Antin’s Definitions
On Armand Schwerner
A Note on Tom McGrath etc.
A Letter
Untitled: “ . . . will”
Non-Resistance, etc. Or: Of the Guiltless
Statement on Poetics
DAYBOOKS
I
II:I
II:II
II:III
II:IV
II:V
III
IV:I
IV:II
V
v
TWENTY-SIX FRAGMENTS
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
Introduction
Textual Apparatus
PROSE
Three Poets
The Mind’s Own Place
A Review of David Antin’s Definitions
On Armand Schwerner
A Note on Tom McGrath etc.
A Letter
Untitled: “ . . . will”
Non-Resistance, etc. Or: Of the Guiltless
Statement on Poetics
DAYBOOKS
I
II:I
II:II
II:III
II:IV
II:V
III
IV:I
IV:II
V
v
TWENTY-SIX FRAGMENTS
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index