Description: "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
Brief description: GEORGE OPPEN (1908-1984) was born in New Rochelle, New York. Often associated with the Objectivists, Oppen abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism, and later moved to Mexico to avoid the House Un-American Activities Committee. He returned to poetry--and to the United States--in 1958 and received a Pulitzer Prize for his work in 1969.
Review Quotes: A first rate edition of Oppen's poetry. His poetry serves as a model of modernist ethics as well as aesthetics.--William Doreski "Harvard Review"