[Wgcp-whc] Wg/Poetics--Oppen reading

[richard.deming at yale.edu]

Dear Group members,

Via e-mail and discussions it seems that the name of George Oppen has 
appeared the most as an author people would like to see discussed.  
Thus, copies of his long poem "Of Being Numerous" (the title poem of 
the collection for which he won the Pulitzer Price in 1969) are now 
available in the WHC reception area, in the usual spot.  We will 
discuss this on Friday, Oct 1, our next regularly scheduled 
meeting.Again, the meeting time is 1:45 in the Whitney Humanities 
Center Rm 116.

Some useful links (the first being perhaps the best context for his 
work) are the following:

http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/html/mss0016d.html

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/oppen/life.htm

http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=944

http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/oppen/



There are a number of names that came up frequently including Vallejo, 
Whitman, Olson, Palmer, and Niedecker.  We can set the agenda and dates 
when we meet on the 1st.


--R. Deming