Xavier Kalck
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George Oppen's Poetics of the Commonplace

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Few poets have been as adamant about the uselessness of their art in the face of history as American poet George Oppen (1908-1984), and yet, few poets have been as viscerally convinced of the important role of the poem in restoring meaning to our words. Oppen came to maturity between two world wars, at the time of the Depression, and gave up poetry just when he had embraced it. In the 1960s and 1970s, however, his new work seemed to many poets and critics to represent the epitome of poetic virtue in dark times. Whereas Oppen wrote of the lost sense of the commonplace, his readers found in his ...