George Oppen (April 24, 1908 – July 7, 1984) was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry...
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Oppen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: George Oppen (1908–1984), was an American poet. Mary Oppen (1908–1990), American activist...
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poetry and politics of George and Mary Oppen grew. Fifty years later, in her autobiography Meaning A Life (1978), Mary Oppen observed of these times:...
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group consisted of the Americans Zukofsky, Williams, Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen and Carl Rakosi, and the British poet Basil Bunting. Later, another American...
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has written on both George Oppen and Niedecker.In 1985, he edited Not Comforts / but Visions, essays on the poetry of George Oppen, which included work...
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of Blackwater USA accused of murder in Iraq Mary Oppen, activist, photographer, wife of George Oppen Brock Osweiler, quarterback for Denver Broncos, Cleveland...
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debts to modern American poetry, in particular William Carlos Williams, George Oppen, Marianne Moore, and Louis Zukofsky, as well as artists like Georgia...
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the poem in Confucius to Cummings, edited with Marcella Spann (1964). George Oppen alludes to the poem in "O Western Wind" (1962),"The Little Pin: Fragment"...
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Paul Muldoon Les Murray Lorine Niedecker Frank O'Hara Charles Olson George Oppen Wilfred Owen Michael Palmer John Peck Robert Pinsky Sylvia Plath Ezra...
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for several European publishing groups. He has translated the work of George Oppen, Michael Hamburger, Charles Tomlinson, and as of late, Basil Bunting...
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Objectivists Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen and Carl Rakosi were all, at one time or another, committed Marxists and Oppen spent a number of years in Mexico...
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Ford, Marianne Moore, Louis Zukofsky, Jacob Epstein, Margaret Anderson, George Oppen, and Charles Olson. Beyond this, his legacy is mixed. He was a strong...
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1930s. They include Louis Zukofsky, Lorine Niedecker, Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, and Basil Bunting. Objectivists treated the poem as an...
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Milton, who in Paradise Lost compares Satan to Leviathan – see above. George Oppen 1962 poem "Leviathan". There is a poem by W. S. Merwin with the same...
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In the 1960s, at the behest of friend and fellow poet George Oppen, and Oppen's sister June Oppen Degnan, New Directions published two books of his poetry:...
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Moore, John Berryman, Yvor Winters, Basil Bunting, Louis Zukofsky and George Oppen. C. S. Lewis called him "the father of the Drab Age" (i.e. the unornate)...
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David Jones, Christopher Middleton, Lorine Niedecker, Jeff Nuttall, George Oppen, Tom Pickard (with a preface by Bunting), Omar S. Pound, F. T. Prince...
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Nichola Napoli Franz Neumann** David K. Niles Eugénie Olkhine George Oppen** Mary Oppen** Frank Oppenheimer** Julius Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director...
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Hesse, 1946 Frédéric Mistral, 1904 Hilton Als, 2017 Gary Snyder, 1975 George Oppen, 1969 Richard Eberhart, 1966 William Carlos Williams, 1963 Tennessee...
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Poetry of René Char and George Oppen. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 978-0-268-02229-7. Battaile, Georges (1994). Michael Richardson...
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Principle. Shoptaw, John, "Lyric Incorporated: The Serial Object of George Oppen and Langston Hughes", in Sagetrieb, Vol. 12, No. 3, Winter 1993, pp. 105–24...
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Duncan Chaplin Lee * Malcolm X * U.S. Representative Vito Marcantonio George Oppen Ronald Radosh John F. Shelley Morton Sobell Helen Sobell Elaine Black...
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love to James Chaney and singing the song, "Man of Constant Sorrow". George Oppen dedicated his poem, "The Book of Job and a Draft of a Poem to Praise...
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Hay-on-Wye in Wales. Lynne Reid Banks goes to live in a kibbutz in Israel. George Oppen publishes his first collection of poetry since Discrete Series in 1934...
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the poet's vision Louis Zukofsky, Lorine Niedecker, Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, Basil Bunting Southern Agrarians A group of Southern American...
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poets, which included besides Zukofsky, his friends Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen and Carl Rakosi, and Lorine Niedecker as well as Pound's friend and protégé...
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Japanese poet Onomacritus (c. 530–480 BCE), Attic poet, priest and seer George Oppen (1908–1984), US poet Artur Oppman (Or-Ot, 1867–1931), Polish poet Edward...
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Baraka, Ted Enslin, and Margaret Avison. His edited collection of essays George Oppen: Man and Poet was a work of which he was especially proud. He also contributed...
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Objectivists, a largely New York group gathered around Louis Zukofsky and George Oppen. He was included in the 1931 issue of Poetry magazine dedicated to Objectivist...
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included Louis Zukofsky (1904–1978), Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976), George Oppen (1908–1984), Carl Rakosi (1903–2004) and, later, Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970)...
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