Poet and scholar MICHAEL DAVIDSON is Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body.
George Oppen(1908-1984) was born in New York and died in San Francisco. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968 forOf Being Numerous.His work is available inNew Collected Poems,edited by Michael Davidson (2002);Selected Poems,edited by Robert Creeley (2003); andSelected Letters of George Oppen,edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis (1990).