Is this a Brit edition of Oppen I've not seen? I'm curious to see how it's set as New Directions trashed the poems in the new collected edition-- yes yes great intros and essays and unpublished stuff are good but the actual typesetting is no good-- completely throws out the sense of the poems as presented in the first ND Collected that Oppen proofed. I mean it's not that hard NOT to trash. sigh. etc.
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it seems to me that whatever the limitations of the technology oat the time the first book was done, the fact remains that it reflects Oppen's intentions for the presentation of the work, and those should be honored, as much as possible.
compare "Animula" in the old and new Collecteds-- the spacing both within and between the lines radically alters the movement of the poem.
perhaps i'm being too harsh to say they 'trashed' it, but i much prefer the previous setting of the poems.
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