http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/a-halloween-poem-strange-are-the-products/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/a-halloween-poem-strange-are-the-products/#comment-5941 robert adamson Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:35:22 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1128#comment-5941 Forrest, thanks for 'Strange Are The Products', it reminds me to buy the New Oppen Collected. What a great poet, his work is as fresh today as it was when I first read it in the 1960s, in fact it seems more vibrant now, ( he is like one of the Golden Codgers W B Yeats writes about, glowing brighter as they age. Forrest, thanks for ‘Strange Are The Products’, it reminds me to buy the New Oppen Collected.
What a great poet, his work is as fresh today as it was when I first read it in the 1960s,
in fact it seems more vibrant now, ( he is like one of the Golden Codgers W B Yeats writes
about, glowing brighter as they age.
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]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/a-halloween-poem-strange-are-the-products/#comment-5940 Don Share Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:30:03 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1128#comment-5940 This is book is a beaut. Even though I already have the previous hardcover edition, I picked this new version up for the CD, which is a must-hear, as you say. (Oppen's poems appeared in <i>Poetry</i> over two dozen times, we're proud to observe, from the early thirties all the way into the late sixties.) My only teeny cavil: the notes are extremely useful, but the one for "The Lighthouses" annotates its epigraph, "for L Z in time of the breaking of nations," as possibly refering to trouble in the Middle East. Which no doubt it does, but the reference to Hardy and in turn to the Bible - Jeremiah: "Thou art my battle ax and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations and with thee will I destroy kingdoms," is too interesting to go unremarked or unnoticed. I mean, talk about a discrete series: O.T. - Hardy - Oppen. But I digress, as always! This is book is a beaut. Even though I already have the previous hardcover edition, I picked this new version up for the CD, which is a must-hear, as you say. (Oppen’s poems appeared in Poetry over two dozen times, we’re proud to observe, from the early thirties all the way into the late sixties.)
My only teeny cavil: the notes are extremely useful, but the one for “The Lighthouses” annotates its epigraph, “for L Z in time of the breaking of nations,” as possibly refering to trouble in the Middle East. Which no doubt it does, but the reference to Hardy and in turn to the Bible – Jeremiah: “Thou art my battle ax and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations and with thee will I destroy kingdoms,” is too interesting to go unremarked or unnoticed. I mean, talk about a discrete series: O.T. – Hardy – Oppen. But I digress, as always!
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