ABSTRACT
To readers of George Oppen’s previous books of poetry, the open spaces and syntactic incompleteness of the first poem in his 1972 volume of poems, Seascape: Needle’s Eye, were probably as disconcerting as the deliberately unpoetic title, ‘From a Phrase of Simone Weil’s and some Words of Hegel’s’. 1 These are the opening lines: https://www.niso.org/standards/z39-96/ns/oasis-exchange/table">
In
back
deep the jewel
The treasure
No
Liquid
