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Additional authors

1. Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005
2. New Directions Publishing
3. Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

1. xvi, 205 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

1. "Offers a selection of Oppen's poetry from all his books published during his lifetime ... in addition, this volume includes Oppen's only known essay, 'A mind's own place'; 'Twenty-six fragments' Oppen scribbled on envelopes and scraps of paper found posted on his wall after his death, edited by Stephen Cope; as well as a chronology and bibliography put together by Rachel Blau DuPlessis"--Back cover.

Alternative title

1. Selected poems

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. Poetry

Genre/Form

1. poetry.
2. Poetry
3. Poems.
4. Poésie.

Contents

1. from Discrete Series (1934) -- "The knowledge ..." -- "The edge of the ocean," -- from The Materials (1962) -- Eclogue -- Image of the Engine -- Return -- From Disaster -- Blood from the Stone -- Birthplace: New Rochelle -- Myself I Sing -- Stranger's Child -- Product -- From a Photograph -- Time of the Missile -- O Western Wind -- The Crowded Countries of the Bomb -- Part of the Forest -- Pedestrian -- Leviathan -- from This In Which (1965) -- Philai Te Kou Philai -- Psalm -- Five Poems about Poetry -- Guest Rooms -- Giovanni's Rape of the Sabine Women at Wildenstein's -- A Language of New York -- Boy's Room -- Penobscot -- Stree -- Of Thi s All Things ... -- Bahamas -- Alpine -- Quotations -- Red Hook: December -- The Bicycles and the Apex -- Monument -- Niece -- A Narrative -- Pro Nobis -- World, World -- from Of Being Numerous (1968) -- Of Being Numerous -- A Kind of Garden: A Poem for my Sister -- A Theological Definition -- Power, the Enchanted World -- Ballad -- from Seascape: Needle's Eye (1972) -- From a Phrase of Simone Weil's and Some Words of Hegel's -- Animula -- West -- Of Hours -- Song, The Winds of Downhill -- Some San Francisco Poems -- from Myth of the Blaze (1972-1975) -- Latitude, Longitude -- Myth of the Blaze -- Semite -- The Little Pin: Fragment -- from Primitive (1978) -- A Political Poem -- Disasters -- The Poem -- Populist -- Neighbors.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-201) and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain