BIBLIOGRAPHY

McAleavy, David. “A Bibliography of the Works of George Oppen,” in Paideuma, 10 (Spring 1981): 155-169.

A comprehensive listing of Oppen's work.

BIOGRAPHY

Oppen, Mary. Meaning A Life, Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1978, 213 p.

Mary Oppen traces courses through which she and her husband steered their life together.

CRITICISM

Hatlen, Burton, ed. George Oppen: Man and Poet. Orono: National Poetry Foundation/University of Maine Press, 1981, 514 p.

A formidable collection of essays about Oppen with a copiously annotated bibliography.

Simpson, Louis. “Poetry in the Sixties B Long Live Blake! Down with Donne!” in The New York Times, Vol. CXIX, No. 40, 881 (December 28, 1969): VII. pp. 2, 18.

Includes Oppen in a discussion of poets and poetry of the 1960s.

Taggart, John. “Walk-Out: Rereading George Oppen,” in Chicago Review, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 29-93.

A lyrical analytic speculation regarding Oppen's postulated Jewish identity problem, the effect on him of his Alzheimer's disease in his last years, and Mary Oppen's role in the preparation of his last volume of poetry.

Additional coverage of Oppen's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors,Vols. 13-16R, 113; Contemorary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 8; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 7, 13, 34; and Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 5, 165.