Lessons: Selected Poems
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Lessons: Selected Poems
By (Author) Joel Oppenheimer
Introduction by David Landrey
Edited by Dennis Maloney
White Pine Press
White Pine Press
13th June 2017
United States
Classifications
Physical Properties
Paperback
220
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
396g
Description
Joel Oppenheimer was a student of Charles Olson at the original Black Mountain College, a fixture in New Yorks West Village, and a lover of the NY Mets. His work embraces the taunt line of W. C .Williams. Lessons returns the work of this essential American poet to print.
No one else speaks with his benevolence and humor and still touches me at the depths of my own fear and love. I think his poems are a Godsend to us all.
Hayden Carruth
Oppenheimer was an immense and buoyant influence on the poesy of my contemporaries and me.
Andrei Codrescu
Joel Oppenheimer (1930 - 1988) published more than a dozen books of poetry.
Author Bio
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).
