The Oppens remembered [electronic resource] :poetry, politics, and friendship / edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis.
Contributor(s): DuPlessis, Rachel Blau [editor.] | Project Muse.
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BookSeries: Recencies series: research and recovery in twentieth-century American poetics.Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2015. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780826356246; 0826356249.Subject(s): Oppen, Mary, 1908-1990 -- Friends and associates | Oppen, George -- Friends and associates | LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry | LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General | Poetics | Poetry and the arts -- United States | Poets, American -- 20th century -- BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 811/.54 | B Online resources: Full text available: Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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