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Thinking Poetics: Essays on George Oppen ed. by Steve Shoemaker (review)
- Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association
- Midwest Modern Language Association
- Volume 44, Number 2, Fall 2011
- pp. 159-162
- 10.1353/mml.2011.0010
- Review
- Additional Information
The volume takes shape with essays that look at the literal material layering of text in his manuscripts as well as the philosophical and historical layering of image and object that unfold and cycle through each long poem. The reader is presented with multiple examinations of how each poem enacts a phenomenology, ontology and ethics via the various things, historical particulars, and unattributed quotations that construct the poems.