Lessons: Selected Poems

Joel Oppenheimer: Joel Oppenheimer (1930 - 1988) was an American poet associated with both the Black Mountain poets and the New York School. He served as the first director of the St. Marks Poetry Project and was also well-known for his columns in the Village Voice (1969-1984).

• from Names and Local Habitations: Selected Early Poems 1951 - 1972The Dancer An Answer The Bus Trip The Bath ProvenceGardener Cartography An Underfined Tenderness The Forth Ark Royal N.B. New Blue for the Moon Flora A PrayerIn the Beginning The BrushesAquariusPoem on the Death of WCW 3/4/63Old StoryA GraceFor Matthew, DeadFor William Carlos WilliamsThe Sum TotalThe Only Anarchist GeneralZen YouMoratoriumfrom Collected Later Poems 1973 - 1988from The Woman PoemsThe LoverEvery Time Wondering Gettin’ ThereThe Lady of MadnessMoving OutScreaming PoemDream PoemBreast PoemMonosyllable PoemTraveling Poem Mother PrayerLost Son Poem Father Poem Discovery Poem Muse Poem Mirror Poem Season Poem I Definition Poem Prayer Poem from Names, Dates and PlacesFirst Poem For My Last Son E.P. 1885 - 1972 A Letter to Philip Poem For The New Year If There Was Sense Serving Notice Celebrating The Peace from At Fifty: A Poemnecessarily a fool is always a fool at last I understand seven-thirty in the morning they set up headquarterseleven years agobewildered in thethe topic sentence saysfrom GenerationsChildWhat My Father SaidMotherThe OldestRitualLifefrom New SpacesStatement to the CitizensA Village PoemLessons 1 Lessons 2 ActsA Beginning Cities This CityCactiHouses from Why NotPrefaceThe TeacherThe GardenSpringAnarchistsfrom New Hampshire JournalChaosIn New Hampshire Country AlbaGryllidae AcheneA New Hampshire JournalAnimalsfrom Additional PoemsFor Hoyt Wilhelm?