This was a nice read. A line that struck me, given the forced march to insanity that we’ve been experiencing in recent years: “[Oppen] was wary of the idea tha

This was a nice read. A line that struck me, given the forced march to insanity that we’ve been experiencing in recent years: “[Oppen] was wary of the idea that every aspect of a life should conform to a coherent political-aesthetic vision or ideology, a form of didacticism that has long been a strong undercurrent in American culture.”