Category Archives: Poetics

Charles Bernstein on George Oppen

Even after a year of reading him in my spare time, I still like to spend my evenings with Oppen. Here’s likely my favourite passage from him:
   ’Whether, as the intensity of seeing increases, one’s distance
        from Them, the people, does not also increase’
   I know, of course I know, I can enter on other place
   Yet I am [...]