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George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism (Paperback)
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George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism (Paperback)
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Regard for George Oppen's poetry has been growing steadily over the
last decade. Peter Nicholls's study offers a timely opportunity to
engage with a body of work which can be both luminously simple and
intriguingly opaque. Nicholls charts Oppen's commitment to Marxism
and his later explorations of a 'poetics of being' inspired by
Heidegger and Existentialism, providing detailed accounts of each
of the poet's books. He is the first critic to draw extensively on
the Oppen archive, with its thousands of pages of largely
unpublished notes and drafts for poems; in doing so, he is able to
map the distinctive contours of Oppen's poetic thinking and to
investigate the complex origins of many of his poems. Oppen emerges
from this study as a writer of mercurial intensities for whom every
poem constitutes a 'beginning again', a freeing of the mind from
thoughts known in advance. A strikingly innovative and challenging
poetics results from Oppen's attempt to avoid what he regards as
the errors of the modernist avant-garde and to create instead a
designedly 'impoverished' aesthetic which keeps poetry close to the
grain of experience and to the political and ethical dilemmas it
constantly poses.
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