George Oppen (1908–1984)
Author of The Collected Poems of George Oppen
About the Author
Image credit: George Oppen [credit: Michael West]
Works by George Oppen
Associated Works
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 496 copies, 2 reviews
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Contributor — 443 copies, 1 review
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Contributor — 375 copies, 2 reviews
The Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas from Origins to Present (2024) — Contributor — 15 copies
History, memory, and the literary left : modern American poetry, 1935-1968 (2006) — excerpted — 9 copies
Epitaphs for Lorine — Contributor — 6 copies
Montemora No. 1 — Contributor — 2 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Oppen, George
- Birthdate
- 1908-04-24
- Date of death
- 1984-07-07
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Oregon State University
- Occupations
- poet
publisher - Organizations
- United States Army (WWII)
Communist Party USA - Awards and honors
- Purple Heart
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1980) - Relationships
- Oppen, Mary (wife)
- Nationality
- USA (birth)
- Birthplace
- New Rochelle, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Mexico City, Mexico
San Francisco, California, USA - Place of death
- Sunnyvale, California, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
Members
Reviews
I don't know if I would be a different person if I never read George Oppen, but ever since I was introduced to his poetry, I turn to it all the time. The way I feel about certain poems of his is probably similar to the way my Christian sister feels about certain Psalms.
Oppen's eye is unparalleled. His meditations come from deep looking, penetrating the layer of essence to discover the multiplicities of being which lie beneath. His series "Of Being Numerous" is one of the most important poetic pieces of the 20th century. Here's a quoteThere are thingswe live amongand to see themis to know ourselves.
I'm not as much of a fan of the poems from the '70s, but even those were still good to read.
Lists
LRB Vol.40 No.12 (1)
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Statistics
- Works
- 21
- Also by
- 14
- Members
- 643
- Popularity
- #39,229
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 25
- Languages
- 4
- Favorited
- 7
