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Jeremy Harding: The poetry of George Oppen, 6 May 2004
New Collected Poems
by George Oppen, edited by Michael Davidson.
Carcanet, 433 pp., £14.95, July 2003,1 85754 631 8 Show More
by George Oppen, edited by Michael Davidson.
Carcanet, 433 pp., £14.95, July 2003,
“... is a fine, capacious dwelling, tended by two of Oppen’s most devoted caretakers, Davidson and Eliot Weinberger, who supplies a short preface ahead of the main editorial introduction. The notes are copious and extremely helpful. Altogether a marvellous piece of work. Yet it’s a relief to return to the first US Collected, or some of the smaller ... ”
