Oppen

And btw, was that Paula Van Oppen in the background dancing?

'Greek' midseason finale: Singing! Dancing! Love! Arson! | EW.com 2009

Tue 11/03/09 11: 14 PM that was totally Paula Van Oppen in the background! and no this wasnt the reason she couldnt be in the Top 20 of SYTYCD. she got offered a role in the Christina Aguilera & Cher movie “Burlesque”

'Greek' midseason finale: Singing! Dancing! Love! Arson! | EW.com 2009

The modern exists in every century and to find it I reach back to the pre-Socratic writers, to the Troubadours, to Blake, to Whitman, to Pound, Williams, to Stein, and continue forward to Oppen, Niedecker, and to the many poets writing now who continue and re-direct the liberality of modernism into our present concerns.

Anis Shivani: Is American Poetry at a Dead-End? Prominent Poets Speak Out Anis Shivani 2010

But there is, nonetheless, Oppen asserts, something reliable that persists, and our example is the little life of a tree, growing on a sidewalk, into the "culture" of the street.

Poetry: What Does It Accomplish? 2010

Oppen performs the role of tribal father here, reviewing our collective situation and placing emphases upon what he sees as crucial recognitions.

Poetry: What Does It Accomplish? 2010

The modern exists in every century and to find it I reach back to the pre-Socratic writers, to the Troubadours, to Blake, to Whitman, to Pound, Williams, to Stein, and continue forward to Oppen, Niedecker, and to the many poets writing now who continue and re-direct the liberality of modernism into our present concerns.

Anis Shivani: Is American Poetry At A Dead-End? Anis Shivani 2010

Though abstract, Oppen writes in a famously plain style, and furnishes his statements with concrete examples.

Poetry: What Does It Accomplish? 2010

The modern exists in every century and to find it I reach back to the pre-Socratic writers, to the Troubadours, to Blake, to Whitman, to Pound, Williams, to Stein, and continue forward to Oppen, Niedecker, and to the many poets writing now who continue and re-direct the liberality of modernism into our present concerns.

Anis Shivani: Is American Poetry At A Dead-End? Anis Shivani 2010

Oppen offers no solution, but the reassurance of a lucid diagnosis.

Poetry: What Does It Accomplish? 2010

After Discrete Series, Oppen didn't publish another book until 1962.

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