Lessons: Selected Poems
AUTHOR
Joel Oppenheimer
EDITOR
Dennis Maloney
INTRODUCTION BY
David Landrey
Joel Oppenheimer was a student of Charles Olson at the original Black Mountain College, a fixture in New York’s West Village, and a lover of the NY Mets. His work embraces the taunt line of W. C .Williams. Lessons returns the work of this essential American poet to print.
Reviews
"No one else speaks with his benevolence and humor and still touches me at the depths of my own fear and love. I think his poems are a Godsend to us all.”
—Hayden Carruth
"Oppenheimer was an immense and buoyant influence on the poesy of my contemporaries and me.”
—Andrei Codrescu
Dennis Maloney is a poet and translator. A number of volumes of his own poetry have been published including The Map Is Not the Territory: Poems & Translations and Just Enough, and Listening to Tao Yuan Ming. A bilingual German/English volume, Empty Cup was published in Germany in 2017. Recent collections include The Things I Notice Now and The Faces of Guan Yin. His poems have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
David Landrey spent 38 years teaching literature, 35 of them at Buffalo State College, where he was afforded the freedom to develop courses in American Postmodern Poets and thus to educate himself about what has been most interesting in letters in our time. He studied briefly with Charles Olson at SUNY Buffalo and feels blessed to have met and worked with so many exciting poets, known and unknown. The co-editor of Drawing From Life: A Selection of Joel Oppenheimer's Work From the Village Voice and of Oppenheimer's Poetry: The Ecology of the Soul, he is the author of CONSCIOUSNESS SUITE (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009) and INTERMEZZI TO DIVORCE POEMS AND DINNER TABLE SCENES (Jensen/Daniels, 2002). He has recently had essays published in THE BODY OF THIS LIFE: READING WILLIAM BRONK (Talisman House, 2001) and on Robert Creeley and Joel Oppenheimer in THE WORLD IN TIME AND SPACE: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF INNOVATIVE AMERICAN POETRY IN OUR TIME (Talisman House, 2002).
Joel Oppenheimer was a student of Charles Olson at the original Black Mountain College, a fixture in New York’s West Village, and a lover of the NY Mets. His work embraces the taunt line of W. C. Williams.