George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism

Regard for George Oppen''s poetry has been growing steadily over the last decade. Peter Nicholls''s study offers a timely opportunity to engage with a body of work which can be both luminously simple and intriguingly opaque. Nicholls charts Oppen''s commitment to Marxism and his later explorations of a ''poetics of being'' inspired by Heidegger and Existentialism, providing detailed accounts of ea...