Joel Oppenheimer (1930-1988) was an American poet associated with both the Black Mountain poets and the New York school. Oppenheimer was born in Yonkers, New York, attended Cornell University for one year in 1948, spent less than one semester at the University of Chicago, and in 1950 enrolled at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. At Black Mountain, he studied with Paul Goodman and poet Charles Olson, became friends with Fielding Dawson and Ed Dorn, and worked in the school's print shop. The Black Mountain poets, sometimes called the Projectivist poets, were a group of mid 20th century American avant-garde or postmodern poets centered around Black Mountain College. ... This article is in need of attention. ... There have been multiple well-known individuals named Paul Goodman: Paul Goodman (writer), US author, freethinker, anarchist and Gestalt Therapy contributor (see Paul Goodman page in the Anarchist Encyclopedia) Paul Goodman (sound engineer), winner of multiple Grammy Awards) Paul Alexander Cyril Goodman (United Kingdom politician) Paul Goodman an NHL hockey... Charles Olson (27 December 1910 - 10 January 1970) was an important 2nd generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and such later avant garde groups as the Beats and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. He... Fielding Dawson (1930-2002) Beat-era author of short stories and novels, student of the Black Mountain School. ... Edward Dorn (1929-1999) was a United States poet who was associated with the Black Mountain poets. ...
In his earliest poetry, Oppenheimer shows clearly the influence of William Carlos Williams, but he soon developed his own style. While at Black Mountain, Oppenheimer met and married his first wife, Rena Furlong. He left the school in January of 1953 without taking a degree, eventually settling in New York and working in a print shop while continuing to write poetry.
JoelOppenheimer was born in Yonkers, NY and attended Black Mountain College where he was a student of Charles Olson.
JoelOppenheimer enjoyed living among people and looked for the genuine in every occasion, which he transformed into the particulars of many, many poems.
An old and devoted frind of JoelOppenheimer'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.
JoelOppenheimer, who died in 1997, strove to make earth confess its "stolen bits of God." This biography, which grew out of a hypnotherapist's sessions with Oppenheimer as he attempted to lessen his tobacco habit, brings attention to this poet who received much less than he deserved during his life.
Oppenheimer, a student at Black Mountain College during its Charles Olson / Paul Goodman heyday, a figure in the Greenwich Village scene most of his life, and a notable critic for The Village Voice, published mostly through small, but distinguished, presses such as The Jargon Society and Perishable Press.
The book begins with his death, and the text of his last poem "animal." In the poem a young goat reaches unsuccessfully for some green leaves tempting it nearby, and an old dog tangled in undergrowth by his lead spends a whole day without water and later runs away.
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