Author Description

"Gathers in one volume all of the poet's books published in his lifetime (1908-84), as well as his previously uncollected poems and a selection of his unpublished work. Oppen, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, has long been acknowledged as one of America's foremost modernists....[this book] replaces the earlier 'Collected Poems' of 1975"--Bookjacket.