Tuesday, April 8, 3:00-9:00pm
The Shape of Disclosure: George Oppen Centennial Symposium
On the occasion of George Oppen's centennial and the publication of
his Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers, poets and scholars gather
to honor the life and work of this spare, powerful and original poet.
Co-sponsored by Poets House, Tribeca Performing Arts Center at BMCC
and University of California Press. Funded in part by the New York
Council for the Humanities.
3:00pm Panel: Biographical-Historical Continuum
Moderated by Michael Heller
Featuring Stephen Cope on Oppen's diaries and journals, Norman
Finkelstein on the late poems, Eric Hoffman on Oppen's political
identity and Kristin Prevallet on Oppen's response to World War II.
5:00pm Panel: Literary-Philosophical Spectrum
Moderated by Thom Donovan
Featuring Romana Huk on Oppen's relationship to metaphysics and
Judeo-Christian philosophy, Burt Kimmelman on Oppen and Heidegger,
Peter O'Leary on Whitman's influence on Oppen and John Taggart on
Oppen's poetry as "a process of thought."
7:30pm George Oppen Centennial Reading
Stephen Cope, Thom Donovan, Norman Finkelstein, E. Tracy Grinnell,
Michael Heller, Erica Hunt, Burt Kimmelman, Geoffrey O'Brien, Peter
O'Leary, Kristin Prevallet, Hugh Seidman, Harvey Shapiro, Stacy
Szymaszek & John Taggart
George Oppen was born April 24, 1908 in New Rochelle, New York, and
died in San Francisco in 1984. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for
Of Being Numerous (1968), Oppen was also the author of Discrete
Series (1934), The Materials (1962), This in Which (1965) and Primitive (1978).
@ <http://poetshouse.org/tpacmap.htm>Tribeca Performing Arts Center
Borough of Manhattan Community College
199 Chambers Street
$10/Free to Students and Poets House Members
Audiences may attend individual events or the entire symposium
Uncertain Poetries: Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics (2005) and
Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems (2003) available at
www.saltpublishing.com, amazon.com and good bookstores. Survey of
work at http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/heller.htm Collaborations
with the composer Ellen Fishman Johnson at
http://www.efjcomposer.com/EFJ/Collaborations.html
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