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New Collected Poems Hardcover – February 1, 2002

by George Oppen (Author), Michael Davidson (Editor, Introduction)

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George Oppen's New Collected Poems brings together all of the great Objectivist poet's published work, together with a selection of his previously unpublished poems. George Oppen's New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poems published in books during his lifetime (1908-84), as well as previously uncollected poems and also a selection of his unpublished work. Oppen, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, has long been acknowledged as one of America's foremost modernists. A member of the Objectivist group that flourished in the 1930s (which also included William Carlos Williams, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, and Louis Zukofsky), he was hailed by Ezra Pound as "a serious craftsman, a sensibility which is not every man's sensibility and which has not been got out of any other man's book." Oppen's New Collected Poems (which replaces New Direction's earlier, smaller Collected Poems of 1975) is edited by Michael Davidson of the University of California at San Diego, who also writes an introduction to the poet's life and work and supplies generous notes that will give interested readers an understanding of the background of the individual books as well as references in the poems.

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A Modernist who was part of the Objectivist group that included Charles Reznikoff, Louis Zukofsky and Carl Rakosi, George Oppen (1908-1984) won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his masterpiece, Of Being Numerous. New Collected Poems gathers that work, along with some missing from the 1975 Collected. Edited by poet Michael Davidson, it includes Primitive (the last volume Oppen published, in 1978) as well as previously unpublished work. Admirers of Oppen's foundational volumes should be very pleased with this update.

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A marvelous gathering of Oppen's...poems. Michael Davidson also must be commended for his instructive introduction. -- Salem Press, Jeff Jensen, 1 February 2003

Admirers of Oppen's foundational volumes should be very pleased with this update. -- Publishers Weekly, 17 December 2001

Cause for major celebration and delight. -- Daniel Kane, Pequod, Fall 2004

Oppen is in the line of our best contemporary poets. -- David Ignatow, The New Leader

Oppen's ways of working, and the poems they produced, show virtues no other poet can match. -- Times Literary Supplement [London], Stephen Burt, 15 April 2005

The sensation of reading George Oppen...is of being propelled into a space on the edge. -- Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Poetry Project Newsletter, December 2004/January 2005

There is enormous human loneliness at the heart of Oppen's scrupulously crafted poems,...devoted to precision, accuracy and clarity. -- Edward Hirsch, Washington Post Book World, 23 November 2003

This volume is an astonishing record of the development... of a poet of great humanity and intelligence. -- The Nation, John Palattella, 25 March 2002

To a degree unmatched by any book of American poetry...movingly portrays the individual in a collective world. -- The New Yorker, 18 March 18 2002

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Directions; First edition (February 1, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0811214885
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0811214889
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.79 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 1.2 x 9.3 inches

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Nathan Wirth

The Clarity of Compassion

Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2002

This volume constitutes the most complete collection of Oppen's work to date-- many poems of which have not been anthologized until now. The centerpiece of the collection is Oppen's wonderful book-length poem-- Of Being Numerous. This Pulitzer-prize-winning poem is concerned with the dilemma of seeing the world through the eyes of solitude versus seeing the world through the eyes of what it is to be of the numerous. Throughout the poem's forty sections the reader is introduced to the meaning of what it is to be "of being numerous," warned about the shipwreck of isolation, thrust into the madness of war with all of its atrocities, reminded of the limits of language, introduced to clarity, and finally called upon to realize the necessity for compassion. A heartily recommended read!

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