Oppen

<p>Hoffman's narrative explores in considerable depth Oppen's thinking about his own work his reasonings and judgments on himself and his contemporaries in life politics and poetry. Throughout Hoffman supplies a rich contextual background to the Oppens' story one in which public and private life continually intersect not only in the socio-cultural aspects of their lives but in the undergirdings of love hope and guilt that empower the thought and poetry . . . Complex highly-nuanced and well-documented Hoffman's narrative makes clear that few careers in modern poetry are so entwined with biography as Oppen's. -From Michael Heller's introduction.</p>