New Collected Poems Pa (Oppen)

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ISBN: 9780811218054 | 0811218058
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Copyright: 11/17/2008

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"Michael Davidson has done a masterful job of editing this new edition of the Collected Poems.... Few poets significantly alter and enhance the state of the art. Oppen is one of them."-Michael Palmer, Bookforum

Preface by Ezra Pound	p. 3
The knowledge not of sorrow, you were	p. 5
White From the	p. 6
Thus	p. 7
The evening, water in a glass	p. 8
Her ankles are watches	p. 9
The three wide	p. 10
The lights, paving -	p. 11
The mast	p. 12
Closed car - closed in glass -	p. 13
Who comes is occupied	p. 14
Party on Shipboard	p. 15
This land	p. 16
Semaphoring chorus	p. 17
The edge of the ocean	p. 18
Tug against the river -	p. 19
She lies, hip high	p. 20
Civil war photo	p. 21
As I saw	p. 22
Bolt	p. 23
From this distance thinking toward you	p. 24
Town, a town	p. 25
Near your eyes -	p. 26
Fragonard	p. 27
No interval of manner	p. 28
'O city ladies'	p. 29
Bad times	p. 30
It brightens up into the branches	p. 31
On the water, solid -	p. 32
Drawing	p. 33
Deaths everywhere -	p. 34
Written structure	p. 35
Eclogue	p. 39
Image of the Engine	p. 40
Population	p. 43
Resort	p. 44
Solution	p. 45
Travelogue	p. 46
Return	p. 47
From Disaster	p. 50
Sara in Her Father's Arms	p. 51
Blood from the Stone	p. 52
Birthplace: New Rochelle	p. 55
Myself I Sing	p. 56
Stranger's Child	p. 58
Ozymandias	p. 59
Debt	p. 60
Product	p. 61
Workman	p. 62
The Undertaking in New Jersey	p. 63
Tourist Eye	p. 64
Vulcan	p. 67
From a Photograph	p. 68
The Tugs of Hull	p. 69
Time of the Missile	p. 70
The Men of Sheepshead	p. 71
Antique	p. 72
Coastal Strip	p. 73
O Western Wind	p. 74
The Hills	p. 75
The Source	p. 76
Chartres	p. 77
The Crowded Countries of the Bomb	p. 78
Daedalus: The Dirge	p. 79
Part of the Forest	p. 80
Survival: Infantry	p. 81
Squall	p. 82
California	p. 83
Sunnyside Child	p. 84
Pedestrian	p. 85
To Memory	p. 86
Still Life	p. 88
Leviathan	p. 89
Technologies	p. 93
Armies of the Plain	p. 95
Philai Te Kou Philai	p. 97
Psalm	p. 99
The City of Keansburg	p. 100
Five Poems about Poetry	p. 101
The Gesture	p. 101
The Little Hole	p. 101
That Land	p. 102
Parousia	p. 103
From Virgil	p. 104
The Forms of Love	p. 106
Guest Room	p. 107
Giovanni's Rape of the Sabine Women at Wildenstein's	p. 111
A Language of New York	p. 114
Eros	p. 120
Boy's Room	p. 122
Penobscot	p. 123
Seated Man	p. 126
Street	p. 127
Carpenter's Boat	p. 128
Of this all Things ...	p. 129
The People, The People	p. 130
Bahamas	p. 131
The Founder	p. 132
Primitive	p. 133
Alpine	p. 134
Rationality	p. 136
Night Scene	p. 137
The Mayan Ground	p. 138
Quotations	p. 140
Red Hook: December	p. 142
The Bicycles and the Apex	p. 143
The Occurrences	p. 144
Monument	p. 145
Flight	p. 146
Niece	p. 147
The Zulu Girl	p. 148
The Building of the Skyscraper	p. 149
A Narrative	p. 150
Pro Nobis	p. 157
To C.T.	p. 158
World, World	p. 159
Of Being Numerous	p. 163
Historic Pun	p. 189
A Kind of Garden: A Poem for My Sister	p. 190
Route	p. 192
A Theological Definition	p. 203
Power, The Enchanted World	p. 204
Ballad	p. 207
From a Phrase of Simone Weil's and some Words of Hegel's	p. 211
The Occurrences	p. 212
Animula	p. 213
West	p. 215
Of Hours	p. 217
Song, the Winds of Downhill	p. 220
Some San Francisco Poems	p. 221
1. Moving over the hills	p. 221
2. A Morality Play: Preface	p. 221
3. 'And their Winter and Night in Disguise'	p. 224
4. Anniversary Poem	p. 225
5. The Translucent Mechanics	p. 227
6. Silver as	p. 228
7. O withering seas	p. 229
8. The Taste	p. 230
9. The Impossible Poem	p. 231
10. But so as by Fire	p. 232
Exodus	p. 234
Latitude, Longitude	p. 237
The Speech at Soli	p. 238
The Book of Job and a Draft of a Poem to Praise the Paths of the Living	p. 240
Myth of the Blaze	p. 247
Inlet	p. 250
Semite	p. 251
The Little Pin: Fragment	p. 254
The Lighthouses	p. 256
Confession	p. 258
Who Shall Doubt	p. 259
To the Poets: To Make Much of Life	p. 260
Two Romance Poems	p. 261
something wrong with my desk	p. 261
Res Publica: 'The Poet's Lie'	p. 262
A Political Poem	p. 265
Disasters	p. 267
The Poem	p. 270
To Make Much	p. 271
Waking Who Knows	p. 273
If It all Went up in Smoke	p. 274
The Tongues	p. 275
Populist	p. 276
Gold on Oak Leaves	p. 279
The Natural	p. 281
Strange are the Products	p. 282
Neighbors	p. 284
Till Other Voices Wake Us	p. 286
Discrete Series	p. 291
I. This room	p. 291
II. When, having entered -	p. 291
III As I lift the glass to drink	p. 292
The Biblical Tree	p. 293
Monument	p. 294
Memory at 'The Modern'	p. 295
A Preface	p. 295
Voyage	p. 296
From the Friendly Local Press	p. 296
The Students Gather	p. 296
Epigram	p. 297
A Modern Incident	p. 297
The Theological Question	p. 298
[Astray Over Earth]	p. 298
The Song	p. 299
A Poem about the Garden	p. 299
A Barbarity	p. 299
Artist	p. 300
The Law of Poetry	p. 300
[Beautiful as the Sea]	p. 301
[Sympathy]	p. 301
To Find a Way	p. 302
Gift: The Gifted	p. 302
Eagles and Alone	p. 304
Image	p. 305
In Memoriam Charles Reznikoff	p. 306
[he de dark]	p. 307
Probity	p. 307
The Whirl Wind Must	p. 308
The Poem	p. 309
[The Pigeons Fly ...]	p. 313
[Preceded by Mounted Police]	p. 313
[Steamer at the Pier]	p. 313
[A Laced Gaiter]	p. 314
From Up-State	p. 314
Memory of Oars	p. 315
The Amalgamated	p. 316
The Comforters	p. 316
Generation of Drivers	p. 317
The New People	p. 318
Acapulco	p. 318
Near the Beginning	p. 319
Narrative	p. 319
Belvedere	p. 320
Rembrandt's Old Woman Cutting Her Nails	p. 320
To the Muse	p. 321
Bronx Zoo	p. 321
[Bill Before His Death]	p. 322
11/22/63	p. 322
A Cultural Triumph	p. 323
Visit (1)	p. 324
Flight 162	p. 325
Church Interior	p. 325
Maudit	p. 326
Mount Desert Island	p. 326
Mother and Child	p. 327
Wheelers and Dealers: The Theory of Games	p. 327
The Phonemes	p. 328
Light of the Day	p. 328
[The Old Man]	p. 329
Nation	p. 329
Visit (2)	p. 330
The Extreme	p. 331
[Presses Were Busy Enough]	p. 332
Volkswagen	p. 333
The Dog	p. 333
Orpheus	p. 334
Parkway	p. 334
Valentine	p. 335
Us	p. 335
Semantic	p. 336
Say	p. 336
A Wind Makes Up	p. 336
What Will Happen	p. 337
The Resolve	p. 338
The Shore	p. 338
She Steals Birds	p. 339
The Space	p. 339
Story	p. 340
The Squirrel's Stance	p. 341
[Without Self-Mutilation ...]	p. 341
Any Way But Back	p. 342
The Powers	p. 343
All this Strangeness	p. 345
A Dream of Politics	p. 346
The Resistance	p. 348
[A Woman, Said Diane ...]	p. 348
The Poem	p. 349
The Dream	p. 349
Mary	p. 350
Notes	p. 353
Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 417
CD Index	p. 424
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