George Oppen
George Oppen was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism and moved to Mexico in 1950 to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He returned to poetry—and to the United States—in 1958, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1969.
Background
- Born in
- New Rochelle
- Educated at
- Oregon State University
- Awards
- 🏆 Purple Heart🏆 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Trending topics shown first"Register of the George Oppen Papers in the Mandeville Special Collections Library at UC San Diego"
"Perhaps what I would like is a truly democratic culture. Not a polemic nor a moralistic culture in the arts but a culture which permits one man to speak to another honestly and modestly and in freedom…"
"The Test of Belief: or Why George Oppen Quarrelled with Denise Levertov, an essay by Richard Swigg in "Jacket 2" ,November 2012."
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1908
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