Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers

George Oppen (1908--1984) was born in New York and died in San Francisco. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968 for Of Being Numerous. His work is available in New Collected Poems, edited by Michael Davidson (2002); Selected Poems, edited by Robert Creeley (2003); and Selected Letters of George Oppen, edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis (1990). Stephen Cope received his PhD in 2005 from the University of California, San Diego, where he was a research fellow at the Archive for New Poetry, where Oppen's papers are housed. He has taught at universities in California, Iowa, and Ohio.

"A book that will undoubtedly deepen readers' experience and understanding of Oppen, and broaden the scope of Oppen scholarship." -- Joseph Bradshaw Rain Taxi Review Of Books "Carefully transcribed and annotated... Cope's book is well organized and makes an admirably clear text for readers." Times Literary Supplement (TLS)

• Acknowledgments Introduction Textual Apparatus PROSE Three Poets The Mind's Own Place A Review of David Antin's Definitions On Armand Schwerner A Note on Tom McGrath etc. A Letter Untitled: " ... will" Non-Resistance, etc. Or: Of the Guiltless Statement on Poetics DAYBOOKS I II:I II:II II:III II:IV II:V III IV:I IV:II V v TWENTY-SIX FRAGMENTS List of Abbreviations Notes Index