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"Seventeen interviews with George and Mary Oppen, conducted between 1968 and 1987, are brought together for the first time. These conversations provide a unique account of a major American poet's evolution. It is Oppen's detailed commentary on his own writing, and his explanations of how individual poems unfold, which gives special importance to these new collected interviews"--Provided by publisher.

This volume traces the way in which the poetry of Charles Tomlinson evolved from the 1940s to the 1990s as an acoustic means of -seeing- and voicing the physical world. Jointly discussing for the first time the auditory effects of the verse and its many textual forms, the book also draws upon the newly available collection of Tomlinson s poetry manuscripts at the University of Texas and his many recorded readings. The vocal influence of American poetry notably that of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams is assessed, together with Tomlinson s English...

For too long the essential basis of George Oppen's poetry-the words on the page and their acoustics-has been ignored in critical discussions of his work. Challenging this neglect, Richard Swigg offers the reader a direct route into the visual/auditory dimension of the poems as they develop from the 1930s to the 1970s.

George Oppen's standing in American poetry has never been greater. Yet despite the mass of critical writing since his death in 1984, the essential basis of the verse--the words on the page and their acoustics--has rarely been the subject of discussion. In this book therefore Richard Swigg breaks away from the general trend of Oppen studies studies and offers the reader a direct way into the visual and auditory dimension of the poems. Ranging across the entire span of the work, from the 1930s to the 1970s, he traces for the first time the full extent of Oppen's engagement with the concrete...