21 Poems

by George Oppen

The Objectivist Press published George Oppen's first book Discrete Series, a collection of thirty-one short poems with a preface by Ezra Pound, in 1934. Four years earlier, the twenty-one-year-old poet had sent an unbound sheaf of typewritten poems with the title 21 Poems hand-written in pencil on the first page to the poet Louis Zukofsky, who forwarded them on to Pound in Paris. These poems, suffused with Oppen's love for his young bride Mary,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811226913
• ISBN13: 9780811226912
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.7"