Speaking with George Oppen: Interviews with the Poet and Mary Oppen, 1968-1987

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Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction; Works by George and Mary Oppen; 1. George Oppen Interviewed by L.S. Dembo, Madison, Wisconsin, April 25, 1968; 2. George Oppen Interviewed by L.S. Dembo, Madison, Wisconsin, May 1968; 3. George Oppen Interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian and David Gitin, KPFA, Berkeley, March 30, 1970; 4. George Oppen Interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian and Don Branning, Polk Street, San Francisco, February 2, 1973; 5. George Oppen Interviewed by Charles Tomlinson, BBC Radio 3, May 22, 1973.;Seventeen interviews with George and Mary Oppen, conducted between 1968 and 1987, are here brought together for the first time. Two are fresh discoveries, while re-audited recordings of other interviews have given a new authoritative accuracy to the text. These conversations provide a unique account of a major American poet's evolution, through the Depression, war, exile and a return to poetry after two decades of silence. They span Oppen's early years as an Objectivist, his assessments of such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, and his views on the merits of his later contemporaries A.