Publication

2015 - University of New Mexico Press, New Mexico

Language

English

Word Count

66,000 words, Guess

Page Count

264 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100826356230
  • ISBN-139780826356239
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015009390
  • OCLC Control Number907885387
  • Better World Books9780826356239
and 2 more

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • DDCB
  • LCCPS3529.P54 Z85 2015
and 1 more
  • LCCPS3529.P54Z85 2015

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"--

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Series Statement

  • Recencies series: research and recovery in twentieth-century American poetics
  • Recencies

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