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George Oppen : the words in action /

For too long the essential basis of George Oppen's poetry-the words on the page and their acoustics-has been ignored in critical discussions of his work. Challenging this neglect, Richard Swigg offers the reader a direct route into the visual / auditory dimension of the poems as they develop fr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Swigg, Richard, 1938- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press ; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Words and world: an introduction
  • Parts, pairs, positions: a reading of discrete series
  • To write in the great world small
  • That the stones stand: materials for a new poetry
  • The test of belief: or why George Oppen quarrelled with Denise Levertov
  • We want to be here: Oppen, Bronk and the concrete world
  • Speak if you can: language and counter-language in New York
  • In defense of metaphysics
  • The edge of the continent: the San Francisco poems
  • Voice, line and verticals: seascape and beyond
  • Out of the whirlwind: the evolution of a poem
  • The narrow end of the funnel.