New Directions: 1968. Second printing. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Wear along the top of the jacket, a small tear on the bottom of the spine, and a gash close to the bottom of the spine taken off by a sticker. Minor soiling on the back panel of the jacket. Folds on the top of the leaves, starting on page 30. 64 pages. Very good. 
 
Oppen is the metaphysician of the concrete and passing moment in that way that makes you go, “Yes! That’s exactly what it’s like! How could it be put any other way, and why didn’t we think how important these passing moments and fancies really are, how they’re the real substance of our lives!” What’s really is amazing is how quickly he conjures this up within us. This is the second printing of his Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece. 
 
“We are not coeval 
With a locality 
But we imagine others are."