Meaning a Life: an Autobiography [Paperback]

First published in 1978, Mary Oppens seminalA classic of twentieth-century American autobiography now back inprint with previously unpublished material from the authors archive Originally published by Black Sparrow Press and now saved from obscurity, this sonorous autobiography from painter and poet Oppen?chronicles the lives of two literary soul mates.?Although George won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1969, Marys memoir is by no means in his shadow; their love and intellectual union is rhapsodically mutual and an inspiring achievement to behold.?The author divined meaning and guidance from the literary lives around her and channeled those forces into a passionate memoir that will continue to resound with readers even decades after its publication. Now, when we are more atomized than ever  by partisanship and political lies, by contagion and its economic fallout  reading Marys autobiography reminds us that life is important, but that living is a means to an end, not an end in itself. The end is, as she tells us from the start, meaning