Lessons: Selected Poems

by Joel Oppenheimer, David Landrey (Introduction), Dennis Maloney (Editor)

Overview

Joel Oppenheimer was a student of Charles Olson at the original Black Mountain College, a fixture in New York’s 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945680007
Publisher:	White Pine Press
Publication date:	06/13/2017
Series:	White Pine Press Distinguished Poets Series , #4
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

from Names and Local Habitations: Selected Early Poems 1951 - 1972

The Dancer
An Answer
The Bus Trip
The Bath
Provence
Gardener
Cartography
An Underfined Tenderness
The Forth Ark Royal
N.B.
New Blue for the Moon
Flora
A Prayer
In the Beginning
The Brushes
Aquarius
Poem on the Death of WCW 3/4/63
Old Story
A Grace
For Matthew, Dead
For William Carlos Williams
The Sum Total
The Only Anarchist General
Zen You
Moratorium


from Collected Later Poems 1973 - 1988

from The Woman Poems

The Lover
Every Time Wondering
Gettin’ There
The Lady of Madness
Moving Out
Screaming Poem
Dream Poem
Breast Poem
Monosyllable Poem
Traveling Poem
Mother Prayer
Lost Son Poem
Father Poem
Discovery Poem
Muse Poem
Mirror Poem
Season Poem I
Definition Poem
Prayer Poem

from Names, Dates and Places

First Poem For My Last Son
E.P. 1885 - 1972
A Letter to Philip
Poem For The New Year
If There Was Sense
Serving Notice
Celebrating The Peace

from At Fifty: A Poem

necessarily
a fool is always a fool
at last I understand
seven-thirty in the morning
they set up headquarters
eleven years ago
bewildered in the
the topic sentence says

from Generations

Child
What My Father Said
Mother
The Oldest
Ritual
Life

from New Spaces

Statement to the Citizens
A Village Poem
Lessons 1
Lessons 2
Acts
A Beginning
Cities This City
Cacti
Houses

from Why Not

Preface
The Teacher
The Garden
Spring
Anarchists

from New Hampshire Journal

Chaos
In New Hampshire
Country Alba
Gryllidae Achene
A New Hampshire Journal
Animals

from Additional Poems

For Hoyt Wilhelm


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