George Oppen has had one of the most unusual careers of any American poet. He published his first collection of poems in 1934, but his second did not appear until 1962. He did not even write during th...
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In "Route"--a poem from George Oppen's Of Being Numerous (1968), which won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize and whose title-poem critics regard as his major work--Oppen modestly states his aesthetic, philosop...
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George Oppen
