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The Shape of Disclosure: George Oppen Centennial Symposium
with Stephen Cope, Thom Donovan, Norman Finkelstein, Peter Gizzi, E. Tracy Grinnell, Michael Heller, Eric Hoffman, Romana Huk, Erica Hunt, Burt Kimmelman, Geoffrey O\'Brien, Peter O\'Leary, Kristin Prevallet, Anthony Rudolf, Hugh Seidman, Harvey Shapiro, Le
Apr 8, 2008 | 3:00 pm
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On the occasion of George Oppen’s centennial and the publication of his Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers, poets and scholars gather to honor the life and work of this spare, powerful and original poet.
3:00pm Panel: Biographical-Historical Continuum
Moderated by Michael Heller
Featuring Stephen Cope on Oppen’s diaries and journals, Norman Finkelstein on the late poems, Eric Hoffman on Oppen’s political identity and Kristin Prevallet on Oppen’s response to World War II.
5:00pm Panel: Literary-Philosophical Spectrum
Moderated by Thom Donovan
Featuring Romana Huk on Oppen’s relationship to metaphysics and Judeo-Christian philosophy, Burt Kimmelman on Oppen and Heidegger, Peter O’Leary on Whitman’s influence on Oppen and John Taggart on Oppen’s poetry as “a process of thought.”
7:30pm George Oppen Centennial Reading
Readings by Stephen Cope, Thom Donovan, Norman Finkelstein, Peter Gizzi, E. Tracy Grinnell, Michael Heller, Erica Hunt, Burt Kimmelman, Geoffrey O’Brien, Peter O’Leary, Kristin Prevallet, Anthony Rudolf, Hugh Seidman, Harvey Shapiro, Lee Spinks, Stacy Szymaszek and John Taggart.
Funded in part by the New York Council for the Humanities.