| George Oppen: The Words in Action Contributor(s): Swigg, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1611487498 ISBN-13: 9781611487497 Publisher: Bucknell University Press OUR PRICE: $115.83 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 811.52 |
| LCCN: 2016021965 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (1.10 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: George Oppen's standing in American poetry has never been greater. Yet despite the mass of critical writing since his death in 1984, the essential basis of the verse-the words on the page and their acoustics-has rarely been the subject of discussion. In this book therefore Richard Swigg breaks away from the general trend of Oppen studies studies and offers the reader a direct way into the visual and auditory dimension of the poems. Ranging across the entire span of the work, from the 1930s to the 1970s, he traces for the first time the full extent of Oppen's engagement with the concrete world and his important poetic relationships with Charles Reznikoff, Denise Levertov, Charles Tomlinson and others. |