This is the first comprehensive critical edition of the unpublished writings of Pulitzer Prize-winning objectivist poet George Oppen (1908-1984). E...
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Oct 18, 2008
Blueberry
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I think I will always read this book. I will never be done with it. It is awe-some to see Oppen's fragmented thought-bits. . .there is so much in here, I've read it so slowly because I'm always furiously scribbling down quotes as I read. I keep wanting to write essays that begin with a quotes from the Daybooks. So many interesting thoughts on poet-culture and all. He does discuss women's history and come up with the idea that women have no history:::: that women feel and are the smae'today'
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Feb 22, 2009
Carrie
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this book made me fall in love with george oppen. i used it as a primary source for my extensive study on oppen in a modernist poetry class. this book was great for exploring oppen's poetics on a more personal, intimate basis because it includes so many of his little scribblings in his daybooks.
Jan 05, 2008
Greg
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Finally finally finally! Stephen Cope has done a bang-up job of putting the volume into order, annotating the entries, and clearing up the confusions of having the Daybooks appear piecemeal in a half-dozen journals over the last decade.
Full of gems, but here's one that I particularly love: Oppen writes, either w/r/t Pop art or to Leroi Jones and the early Black Arts Movement, "Like a bull in a china shop: it is striking for a while. After that, the china shop becomes a bull pe More...
Full of gems, but here's one that I particularly love: Oppen writes, either w/r/t Pop art or to Leroi Jones and the early Black Arts Movement, "Like a bull in a china shop: it is striking for a while. After that, the china shop becomes a bull pe More...
Oct 19, 2008
Andrew
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This is a beautiful selection of Oppen's papers, taken mostly from what various people found of his lying around. The books is basically just a long collection of fragments, some in prose and others in poems, and still some others morphing from one to the other as you read. Probably not a great read for someone who doesn't already love Oppen's work, but for those of us who do this one is a gem.
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