George Oppen : the words in action /
For too long the essential basis of George Oppen's poetry-the words on the page and their acoustics-has been ignored in critical discussions of his work. Challenging this neglect, Richard Swigg offers the reader a direct route into the visual / auditory dimension of the poems as they develop fr...
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Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Lanham, Maryland :
Bucknell University Press ; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Words and world: an introduction
- Parts, pairs, positions: a reading of discrete series
- To write in the great world small
- That the stones stand: materials for a new poetry
- The test of belief: or why George Oppen quarrelled with Denise Levertov
- We want to be here: Oppen, Bronk and the concrete world
- Speak if you can: language and counter-language in New York
- In defense of metaphysics
- The edge of the continent: the San Francisco poems
- Voice, line and verticals: seascape and beyond
- Out of the whirlwind: the evolution of a poem
- The narrow end of the funnel.
