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In Dark Again in Wonder: The Poetry of Rene Char and George Oppen

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Description for In Dark Again in Wonder: The Poetry of Rene Char and George Oppen Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.

At the center of In Dark Again in Wonder are readings of René Char (1907-88) and George Oppen (1908-84). Both of these poets achieved recognition at a young age, Char among the French surrealists in the 1930s, Oppen among the American objectivists in the same decade. Both were independent individuals who, having found their way to communities of inventive writers, stepped back and shaped their own idiosyncratic paths. Both responded decisively to the social upheavals of the 1930s and ‘40s. Oppen committed himself to radical politics in the ‘30s, a decision that, as it turned out, led to his not ... Read more

The concluding chapter of the book places the questions raised by Char’s and Oppen’s work in a larger context, tracing the cultural history that shapes our modern experience of inhabiting a tension between an historical and a metaphysical horizon of experience, or, as this appears in a different but related light, a tension between a sociological and an existential understanding of our lives. Char and Oppen are both poets concerned with the old philosophical questions that are still with us—the nature of spiritual freedom, the gathering of the self in relation to death, the meditation on the whole, the turn to Nature as the open space of the whole under the conditions of modernity, the clarification of the ground of vision in eros and love, and the search for the good life—while at the same time they fully engage the social predicaments and promises of their world.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268022297
SKU
V9780268022297
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99-1

About Robert Baker
Robert Baker is associate professor of English at the University of Montana. He is the author of The Extravagant: Crossings of Modern Poetry and Modern Philosophy (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005) and the translator of René Char’s The Word as Archipelago.

Reviews for In Dark Again in Wonder: The Poetry of Rene Char and George Oppen
"A brilliant, philosophical, and aesthetic approach to twentieth-century poetry that casts important light on the great poetic works of René Char and George Oppen. Revealing the ongoing role of wonder in the post-Romantic tradition, it points to two remarkable poets whose work embodies imagination in the knowledge of inevitable loss, renewal in the awareness of despair. This is a book ... Read more

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