The Oppens remembered
Subtitle: poetry, politics, and friendship
By: edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Series: Recencies series: research and recovery in twentieth-century American poetics; Recencies
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780826356239
Subjects: Poetics; Poetry and the arts; Friends and associates; Biography; American Poets
Description: "Poet George Oppen (1908-1984) and artist and writer Mary Oppen (1908-1990) were striking, exemplary, and somewhat mysterious cultural figures of the last decades of the twentieth century. To a younger group of artists, George Oppen functioned as a mentor, an irritant, and a supporter. Together, because of their intense and unique union, the Oppens provided a model of the companionate artistic life. In this book the poets, editors, writers, composers, and teachers who knew the couple consider their encounters and relationships with George and Mary Oppen. Set at a politically crucial time in US history, from the Cold War through the Vietnam War and the women's movement, the essays show how people tried to integrate art and politics in the spirit of the Oppens' own debates and choices"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Rachel Blau DuPlessis; title: Poems on George Oppen / Harvey Shapiro; title: Notes from memoirs and conversations of Julian Zimert [Julian Halevy] / Mediated by Samuel Klonimos [Stephen Schneider]; title: 10 for George / David Antin; title: Mary Oppen, George Oppen, friendships / Samuel Klonimos [Stephen Schneider]; title: "Glad you've initiated this correspondence ..." / Michael Heller; title: Trois morceaux en forme de poire : living one's poetics / Diane Wakoski; title: Since my distances became my home : a response to George Oppen / John Crawford; title: This in which I remember George Oppen : two views / Kathleen Fraser; title: Distant life / Michael Davidson; title: With Oppen / Henry Weinfield; title: Meeting George Oppen / Charles Amirkhanian with Carol Law; title: "Successive/Happenings" / Ted Pearson; title: Oppen : his impact / David McAleavey; title: George and Mary Oppen : poetry and friendship / Sharon Olds; title: George Oppen : the knowledge of all we do not know / Anthony Rudolf; title: Three memories of Oppen / Frances Jaffer; title: "Man or woman near" : remembering George and Mary Oppen / Jane Augustine; title: Dialogues with Oppen : appropriation and gender / Rachel Blau DuPlessis; title: Oppen's pipe / Paul Auster; title: Turquoise / Linda Oppen.