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I'll second that. Davidson did a beautiful job. And Of Being Numerous should be required reading--not just the long title poem, but the whole volume. That list of Objectivist poets should include Lorine Niedecker, who was included in by Zukofsky, inventor of the name. All five amazing poets, all coming to reputations late even within the US and increasingly influential in this last 30 years. It didn't help their early reception here that they were committed to far-left politics. Mark At 09:02 AM 3/11/2005, you wrote: >Alison, I highly recommend the latest collection: > >George Oppen: New Collected Poems >Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation (February, 2002) >ISBN: 0811214885 > > From Publishers Weekly >A Modernist who was part of the Objectivist group that included Charles >Reznikoff, Louis Zukofsky and Carl Rakosi, George Oppen (1908-1984) won a >Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his masterpiece, Of Being Numerous. New Collected >Poems gathers that work, along with some missing from the 1975 Collected. >Edited by poet Michael Davidson, it includes Primitive (the last volume >Oppen published, in 1978) as well as previously unpublished work. Admirers >of Oppen's foundational volumes should be very pleased with this update. > >*************************** >Frank Parker >[log in to unmask] >http://frankshome.org > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 3:02 AM >Subject: Re: Litter Magazine > > > > I've had a pleasant read through Litter too - particularly liked the essay > > on Oppen, whom I must read more of - > > > > Best > > > > A > > > > > > Alison Croggon > > > > Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com > > Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au > > Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com > > > >