21 Poems

The Objectivist Press published George Oppen s first book Discrete Series, a collection of thirty-one short poems with a preface by Ezra Pound, in 1934. Four years earlier, the twenty-one-year-old poet had sent an unbound sheaf of typewritten poems with the title 21 Poems hand-written in pencil on t [...]
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The Objectivist Press published George Oppen s first book Discrete Series, a collection of thirty-one short poems with a preface by Ezra Pound, in 1934. Four years earlier, the twenty-one-year-old poet had sent an unbound sheaf of typewritten poems with the title 21 Poems hand-written in pencil on the first page to the poet Louis Zukofsky, who forwarded them on to Pound in Paris. These poems, suffused with Oppen s love for his young bride Mary, as well as his love of sailing, are strikingly different from what they d eventually become in Discrete Series. The scholar David Hobbs recently found 21 Poems buried in Ezra Pound s papers at Yale s Beinecke Library, and they appear here as a collection of their own for the first time."