George Oppen: Selected Poems

"In 1934, (Oppen) published a book of stunning, elliptical lyrics about "big-Business" and American capita ism.... His Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Of Being Numerous, published in 1968 (is) to a degree unmatched by any book of American poetry since."

Introduction	p. ix
from Discrete Series (1934)
"The knowledge ..."	p. 3
"The edge of the ocean"	p. 4
from The Materials (1962)
Eclogue	p. 7
Image of the Engine	p. 8
Return	p. 12
From Disaster	p. 15
Blood from the Stone	p. 16
Birthplace: New Rochelle	p. 19
Myself I Sing	p. 20
Stranger's Child	p. 22
Product	p. 23
From a Photograph	p. 24
Time of the Missile	p. 25
O Western Wind	p. 26
The Crowded Countries of the Bomb	p. 27
Part of the Forest	p. 28
Pedestrian	p. 29
Leviathan	p. 30
from This In Which (1965)
Philai Te Kou Philai	p. 33
Psalm	p. 36
Five Poems about Poetry	p. 37
Guest Room	p. 42
Giovanni's Rape of the Sabine Women at Wildenstein's	p. 46
A Language of New York	p. 49
Boy's Room	p. 55
Penobscot	p. 56
Street	p. 59
Of This All Things ...	p. 60
Bahamas	p. 61
Alpine	p. 63
Quotations	p. 65
Red Hook: December	p. 67
The Bicycles and the Apex	p. 68
Monument	p. 69
Niece	p. 71
A Narrative	p. 72
Pro Nobis	p. 79
World, World--	p. 80
from Of Being Numerous (1968)
Of Being Numerous	p. 83
A Kind of Garden: A Poem for my Sister	p. 111
A Theological Definition	p. 113
Power, the Enchanted World	p. 114
Ballad	p. 117
from Seascape: Needle's Eye (1972)
From a Phrase of Simone Weil's and Some Words of Hegel's	p. 121
Animula	p. 122
West	p. 124
Of Hours	p. 126
Song, The Winds of Downhill	p. 129
Some San Francisco Poems	p. 130
from Myth of the Blaze (1972-1975)
Latitude, Longitude	p. 147
Myth of the Blaze	p. 148
Semite	p. 151
The Little Pin: Fragment	p. 154
from Primitive (1978)
A Political Poem	p. 159
Disasters	p. 161
The Poem	p. 164
Populist	p. 165
Neighbors	p. 168
Appendices	p. 171
The Mind's Own Place	p. 173
Twenty-Six Fragments	p. 183
Chronology	p. 191
Selected Bibliography	p. 199
Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 203
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