Oppen, George - Cid Corman (review date 1976)
Cid Corman (review date 1976)
SOURCE: “Together,” in Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring-Summer, 1976, pp. 83-95.
[In the following review of Oppen’sCollected Poems, Corman praises the poet’s ability to share his experience through language.]
The facts—as they say—as the publishers provide: “born in New Rochelle, New York on April 24, 1908 … his first book in 1934 (Discrete Series) … his second (The Materials) 1962 … most of his life in Brooklyn … in the late 60s to San Francisco where he now lives with his wife, Mary … boating enthusiast … summers on the Maine coast.”
Added to this the known political activism (more apt perhaps would be communal concern) and the removal to Mexico when the postwar witch-hunt got heavy. A decade or more drawn from poetry—but the poetry that has followed reveals there was no real hiatus.
He has declared his wedge into...
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