“... is no other issue ... to think about politically, but I don’t know how to measure happiness,’ George Oppen wrote to June Oppen Degnan in 1970 (an extract from his letter is the epigraph to Midnight Salvage). How, then, should women see themselves? As mosaics, fractured with the lines of putative and possibly ...”

“... writing. At university in the 1990s the coolest young poets I knew were reading Rimbaud and Oppen – two very great and very different writers who had in common their abandonment of the art (though Oppen’s was only temporary). Rimbaud stops at twenty or so and starts running guns; ...”

“... own terms. We stepped past the door of the Bateman Room, where Prynne invited visiting poets like George Oppen, Michael McClure and Dorn to read. He hosted convivial gatherings in his rooms afterwards.After that first meeting, there were book exchanges and valued responses in that precise and unwavering black hand. Brinton told me that these letters were ...”