The Selected Letters of George Oppen

by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Book Overview

Objectivist poet George Oppen (1908-1984), along with his contemporaries Lorine Niedecker, Charles Reznikoff, and Carl Rakoski, provide an important bridge between the vanguard modernist American poets and the later works of poets such as Robert Creeley. In work often compounded by the populist urbanity of city lives, the Objectivists explored the social statements poetry can make. Because Oppen wrote only one essay and one essay-review, his correspondence,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822310244
• ISBN13: 9780822310242
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 471 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.5"