New Collected Poems
Oppen, George
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Copyright © 2002 Linda Oppen.
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 0-8112-1488-5
List of Illustrations...............................................viPreface by Eliot Weinberger........................................viiIntroduction by Michael Davidson..................................xiiiA Note on the Text..............................................xxxviiAcknowledgments..................................................xliiiDiscrete Series (1934)...............................................1The Materials (1962)................................................37This in Which (1965)................................................91Of Being Numerous (1968)...........................................161Seascape: Needle's Eye (1972)......................................209Myth of the Blaze (1972-1975)......................................235Primitive (1978)...................................................263Uncollected Published Poems........................................289Selected Unpublished Poems.........................................311Notes..............................................................353Index of Titles and First Lines....................................423
Chapter One
The knowledge not of sorrow, you were
saying, but of boredom
Is?aside from reading speaking
smoking?
Of what, Maude Blessingbourne it was,
wished to know when, having risen,
"approached the window as if to see
what really was going on";
And saw rain falling, in the distance
more slowly,
The road clear from her past the window-glass?
Of the world, weather-swept, with which
one shares the century.
1
White. From the
Under arm of T
The red globe.
Up
Down. Round
Shiny fixed
Alternatives
From the quiet
Stone floor ...
2
Thus
Hides the
Parts?the prudery
Of Frigidaire, of
Soda-jerking?
Thus
Above the
Plane of lunch, of wives
Removes itself
(As soda-jerking from
the private act
Of
Cracking eggs);
big-Business
The evening, water in a glass
Thru which our car runs on a higher road.
Over what has the air frozen?
Nothing can equal in polish and obscured
origin that dark instrument
A car
(Which.
Ease; the hand on the sword-hilt
Her ankles are watches
(Her arm-pits are causeways for water)
When she steps
She walks on a sphere
Walks on the carpet, dressing.
Brushing her hair
Her movement accustomed, abstracted,
Declares this morning a woman's
"My hair, scalp.?"
1
The three wide
Funnels raked aft, and the masts slanted
the
Deck-hand slung in a bosun's chair
Works on this 20th century chic and
efficiency
Not evident at "The Sailor's Rest."
(Continues...)
Excerpted from New Collected Poems by George Oppen. Copyright © 2002 by Linda Oppen. Excerpted by permission. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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