Lessons: Selected Poems: (White Pine Press Distinguished Poets Series)

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. "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 Joel Oppenheimer (1930 - 1988) published more than a dozen books of poetry.

Table of Contents:
from Names and Local Habitations: Selected Early Poems 1951 - 1972 The Dancer An Answer The Bus Trip The Bath Provence Gardener Cartography An Underfined Tenderness The Forth Ark Royal N.B. New Blue for the Moon Flora A Prayer In the Beginning The Brushes Aquarius Poem on the Death of WCW 3/4/63 Old Story A Grace For Matthew, Dead For William Carlos Williams The Sum Total The Only Anarchist General Zen You Moratorium from Collected Later Poems 1973 - 1988 from The Woman Poems The Lover Every Time Wondering Gettin’ There The Lady of Madness Moving Out Screaming Poem Dream Poem Breast Poem Monosyllable Poem Traveling Poem Mother Prayer Lost Son Poem Father Poem Discovery Poem Muse Poem Mirror Poem Season Poem I Definition Poem Prayer Poem from Names, Dates and Places First Poem For My Last Son E.P. 1885 - 1972 A Letter to Philip Poem For The New Year If There Was Sense Serving Notice Celebrating The Peace from At Fifty: A Poem necessarily a fool is always a fool at last I understand seven-thirty in the morning they set up headquarters eleven years ago bewildered in the the topic sentence says from Generations Child What My Father Said Mother The Oldest Ritual Life from New Spaces Statement to the Citizens A Village Poem Lessons 1 Lessons 2 Acts A Beginning Cities This City Cacti Houses from Why Not Preface The Teacher The Garden Spring Anarchists from New Hampshire Journal Chaos In New Hampshire Country Alba Gryllidae Achene A New Hampshire Journal Animals from Additional Poems For Hoyt Wilhelm ?

About the Author :
Joel Oppenheimer: Joel Oppenheimer (1930 - 1988) was an American poet associated with both the Black Mountain poets and the New York School. He served as the first director of the St. Marks Poetry Project and was also well-known for his columns in the Village Voice (1969-1984).