George Oppen
1908 - 1984
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Personal Information: Born 1908, died 1984, son of George August Oppenheimer and Elsie Rothfeld, married Mary Colby, 1927, children Linda Oppen.
Nationality: American.
Education: Oregon State University at Corvallis
Career: Writer.
Awards/Honors: Pulitzer Prize for Of Being Numerous, 1969.
Discrete Series, Objectivist Press 1932 - 35
The Materials, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1962
This in Which, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1965
Of Being Numerous, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1968
Seascape: Needle's Eye, The Sumac Press, 1972
Collected Poems of George Oppen, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1975
Primitive, Black Sparrow Press, 1979
Selected Letters of George Oppen, edited by Rachel Blau Duplessis, Duke University Press, 1990
New Collected Poems, Preface by Eliot Weinberger, edited by Michael Davidson, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2002
Selected Poems of George Oppen, edited by Robert Creeley, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2003
Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers, edited by Stephen Cope, University of California Press, 2008
Work included in American Literary Anthology, Volume 1, edited by John Hawkes, Farrar, Straus, 1966, and Volume 2, edited by George Plimpton and Peter Ardery, Random House, 1968.
Collections of Oppen's papers are housed at the University of California at San Diego.
Biographical/Critical
Sources:
Ironwood 5: George Oppen: A Special Issue, edited by Michael Cuddihy, Ironwood Press, 1975
George Oppen (Paideuma, Vol 10. No. 1), National Poetry Foundation, 1981
George Oppen: Man and Poet, edited by Burton Hatlen, National Poetry Foundation, 1981
Ironwood 26: George Oppen Special Issue, edited by Michael Cuddihy, Ironwood Press, 1985
Not Comforts//But Vision: Essays on the Poetry of George Oppen, edited by John Freeman, Interim Press, 1985
Weather Within: In Memoriam George Oppen, edited by Theodore Enslin, Membrane Press, 1986
Bibliography of Interviews of George and Mary Oppen Chronologically Arranged, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, 1987
Meaning a Life: An Autobiography, Mary Oppen, Black Sparrow Press, 1990
George Oppen: A Radical Practice, Susan Thackery, O Books, 2001
Depression Glass: Documentary Photography and the Medium of the Camera Eye in Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, and William Carlos Williams, Monique Vescia, Routledge, 2005
George Oppen: A Critical Study, Lyn Graham Barzilai, McFarland & Company, 2006
George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism, Peter Nicholls, Oxford University Press, 2007
Speaking the Estranged: Essays on the Work of George Oppen, Michael Heller, Salt Publishing, 2008