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Speaking the Estranged

Speaking the Estranged

Michael Heller

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Shearsman Books
Año de edición:
2011
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Poesía
ISBN:
9781848612082
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These essays cover the range of George Oppen’s poetry and the ways it has been read at all stages of his career, from his overtly Objectivist roots through his abandonment of poetry for political activism in the thirties to his renewed poetic output after the 1950s.

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