It was that kind of day around the 40th-floor offices of The Daily Growler, and down below lies the fetid air of the beautiful city of Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
Let's see if we can get George Oppen to read to us today:
George Oppen
photo: Michael West
The work of George Oppen is available in two editions:
Complete Poems, ed. Michael Davidson (New York: New Directions, 2002)
Selected Poems, ed. Robert Creeley (New York: New Directions, 2003)
These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial
and educational use only.
All rights to this recorded material belong to Linda Oppen for the Estate of George Oppen. (C) 2004 Linda Oppen.
Used with permission of Linda Oppen. Distributed by PENNSound.
I.
Reading at the 92nd Street Y in 1967 (27:45)
George Oppen reads the complete Of Being Numerous at the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York in 1967.
He is introduced by Armand Schwerner.
1. Schwerner Introduction (4:09)
2. Of Being Numerous (23:40)
II.
From Selected Readings, 1979 recording:
1. Of Being Numerous (Sec. 1-22) (10:30)
2. Historic Pun (1:06)
3. Ballad (1:18)
4. From a Phrase of Simone Weil's and Some Words of Hegel's (0:58)
5. The Occurrences (1:01)
6. Animula (1:03)
7. West (1:34)
8. Song, Winds of Downhill (0:32)
9. A Morality Play: Preface (1:30)
10. The Translucent Mechanics (0:52)
11. Silver As... (0:56)
12. O Withering Seas... (0:51)
13. The Taste (0:56)
14. The Impossible Poem (0:50)
15. But So As By Fire (0:53)
16. Exodus (0:42)
17. Latitude, Longitude (0:33)
18. The Speech at Soli (1:18)
19. Primitive (13:27)
Recording History: All selections were recorded in Brooklyn, New York, April 25 & 29, 1979.
Credits: Selections 1-18, Collected Poems of George Oppen. Copyright © 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1974 by George Oppen. Reproduced by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. Primitive, Copyright © 1978 by George Oppen. Reproduced by permission of Black Sparrow Press.
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