> Joel Oppenheimer Collection [View Bibliography]
< Back

The Poetry Collection announces the publication of Collected Later Poems of Joel Oppenheimer edited with an introduction by Robert J. Bertholf with eleven drawings by John Dobbs.

Joel Oppenheimer was born in Yonkers, NY and attended Black Mountain College where he was a student of Charles Olson. He lived among the poets and artists of Greenwich Village, and was a columnist for The Village Voice from 1969-1978. This long awaited book of collected later poems includes eleven out-of-print books written between 1975 and 1994, as well as 49 unpublished poems. The book is handsomely produced, with illustrations by John Dobbs on the title pages that precede each of the books.

Joel Oppenheimer enjoyed living among people and looked for the genuine in every occasion, which he transformed into the particulars of many, many poems. He was a love poet, a poet of domestic occasions, and a serious Mets fan.

John Dobbs has distinguished himself as an artist and teacher for many years. An old and devoted frind of Joel Oppenheimer's, Dobbs appears in Joel's poem, "The Man Observed through the Kitchen Window", as the "realist painter." His most recent exhibition of baseball paintings, Double Play, was shown at the ACA Galleries in New York.

U.S.A. $14.95 (paper)
ISBN 0-922668-16-7
U.S.A. $24.95 (hardcover)
ISBN 0-922668-15-9

Also Available from The Poetry Collection:

Names & Local Habitations (Selected Earlier Poems 1951-1972) The Jargon Society 1988 Special Prices: $15.00 (hardcover) alone. with paper addition of Collected Later Poems of Joel Oppenheimer: $29.95 with hardbound edition of Collected Later Poems of Joel Oppenheimer: $39.95

Drawing From Life: A Selection of Joel Oppenheimer's Village Voice Columns Edited by Robert J. Bertholf and David Landrey. Published by Moyer Bell	Don't Touch the Poet: The Life and Times of Joel Oppenheimer a biography by Lyman Gilmore. Published by Talisman Press.