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...Rocco Marinaccio Duke University Press 2002 Rocco George Oppen’s I’ve Seen America’ Book Marinaccio Discrete Series and the Thirties Road Narrative In the late twenties, George and Mary Oppen left George’s well-to-do San Francisco family for two long...

... of a single literary text. George Oppen: A Critical Study. By Lyn Graham Barzilai. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2006. vii, 223 pp. Paper, $35.00. Barzilai tackles the life and work of a Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet who has thus far received little critical attention. Oppen...

... that Elli- son and Burke’s relationship produced a vocabulary that enables us to tran- scend, critique, and re-vision investments in “racial binarism.” In Dark Again in Wonder: The Poetry of René Char and George Oppen. By Robert Baker. Notre Dame, IN: Univ. of Notre Dame Press. 2012. xiv, 238 pp...

... of slavery and the contempo- rary social system it produced. The Music of Thought in the Poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk. By Henry Wein- field. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2009. viii, 241 pp. $37.50. Weinfield provides close readings of George Oppen’s and William Bronk’s poems...

... (and vice versa), and the cultural canon that emerges when we consider these understudied traditions. Thinking Poetics: Essays on George Oppen. Ed. Steve Shoemaker. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2009. xxvi, 283 pp. Cloth, $54.50; paper, $34.95. Shoemaker’s collection focuses...

.... Though none of these poets may at first seem postmodern when compared to contemporaries such as Oppen or Creeley, Travisano’s careful delineation of postmodernist characteristics (derived in part from Fredric Jameson) dem...

.... Though none of these poets may at first seem postmodern when compared to contemporaries such as Oppen or Creeley, Travisano’s careful delineation of postmodernist characteristics (derived in part from Fredric Jameson) dem...

... antisubjective strain” and cites as examples George “Oppen’s minimalist gizmos” and Ezra Pound’s 860  American Literature dynastic imperative. I am not sure what a “minimalist gizmo” is, but it hardly applies to Oppen as the author of long series poems like “Of Being Numerous” or “Route,” nor...

... interest (George Oppen, Gwendolyn Brooks, Muriel Rukeyser) to the critically repressed (Thomas McGrath). All of Lowney’s poets are presented as historicized figures, reinvent- ing their poetic stances to more fully address the particularities of their moment, often encountered...

... not been reassessed until this collection. This group of essays places Creeley in dialogue with thinkers such as Spinoza, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin, as well as with poets such as George Oppen, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Gertrude Stein. Above all, the volume aims to draw out...

... American Literature 72:2 / sheet 217 of223 paper, $24.95. This collection of essays explores the ideological and personal connections among Objectivist poets, including Basil Bunting, Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen...

..., the artistic community greeted it with as much enthusiasm as the establishment regarded it with scorn. A play by Derek Walcott stood alongside Allen Ginsberg’s poetry, J. Robert Oppen- heimer’s prose, and a Fidel Castro speech to the United Nations. Today, the project reads like a Who’s Who of the period...

... of urban space and urban art, emphasizing how art talked back to and shaped the city—and vice versa. The analysis moves through the New York World’s Fair of 1939–40 and cultural responses to it; ‘‘international-style modernism’’ and the avant-garde responses of George Oppen and Allen Ginsberg; and jazz...

... is primarily a philosophical investigation. Although it pro- ceeds chronologically from the objectivist poetry of Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, and Charles Reznikoff from the 1930s forward, through the Black Mountain and San Francisco Renaissance poets Ed Dorn and Robert Dun- can...

... is primarily a philosophical investigation. Although it pro- ceeds chronologically from the objectivist poetry of Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, and Charles Reznikoff from the 1930s forward, through the Black Mountain and San Francisco Renaissance poets Ed Dorn and Robert Dun- can...

... is primarily a philosophical investigation. Although it pro- ceeds chronologically from the objectivist poetry of Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, and Charles Reznikoff from the 1930s forward, through the Black Mountain and San Francisco Renaissance poets Ed Dorn and Robert Dun- can...

... is primarily a philosophical investigation. Although it pro- ceeds chronologically from the objectivist poetry of Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, and Charles Reznikoff from the 1930s forward, through the Black Mountain and San Francisco Renaissance poets Ed Dorn and Robert Dun- can...

... is primarily a philosophical investigation. Although it pro- ceeds chronologically from the objectivist poetry of Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, and Charles Reznikoff from the 1930s forward, through the Black Mountain and San Francisco Renaissance poets Ed Dorn and Robert Dun- can...

... is primarily a philosophical investigation. Although it pro- ceeds chronologically from the objectivist poetry of Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, and Charles Reznikoff from the 1930s forward, through the Black Mountain and San Francisco Renaissance poets Ed Dorn and Robert Dun- can...

... is primarily a philosophical investigation. Although it pro- ceeds chronologically from the objectivist poetry of Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, and Charles Reznikoff from the 1930s forward, through the Black Mountain and San Francisco Renaissance poets Ed Dorn and Robert Dun- can...