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	George Oppen information - Search.com
		Oppen was born in New Rochelle, New York.
		Oppen's mother committed suicide when he was four and his father married Seville Shainwald, from whom Oppen was mentally and physically abused.
		Oppen's early poems were therefore an attempt to create poems by strictly ahdering to the principles of "Objectivist" poetics as described by Zukofsky and interpreted by Oppen.
	www.search.com /reference/George_Oppen (1878 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - George Oppen
		George Oppen was born in New Rochelle, New York, on April 24, 1908.
		Oppen and his wife, Mary, sailed and hitchhiked from the West Coast to New York City in the 1920s.
		George and Mary Oppen moved increasingly to the left during the Depression, becoming social activists and joining the Communist party in 1935.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/920 (403 words)

	Mary Oppen at AllExperts
		Born Mary Colby in Kalispell, Montana, she was raised in the Pacific Northwest and met George Oppen in 1926 while both were students at Oregon State University, Corvallis.
		After the second World War, in which George Oppen was severely wounded at the Battle of the Bulge, the Oppens were persecuted by the US government for their leftist activities during the Depression.
		George Oppen, age 76, died of pneumonia preceded by Alzheimer's Disease on July 7, 1984.
	en.allexperts.com /e/m/ma/mary_oppen.htm (884 words)

	Free Verse - George Oppen
		George Oppen has been one of the great, under-recognized voices in twentieth-century American poetry; this despite the fact that he has decisively shaped the direction of much experimental poetry in the US (and elsewhere) since the sixties.
		Yet Oppen's work does describe the world, does name it, but it does so in a way that is both suasive and tentative, in a voice that is both powerfully assertive, even declarative, and at the same time, reluctant to reduce what is seen as its final irreducibility.
		Oppen had achieved a form which allowed his poetry to be at once socially engaged, experimental and dynamic.
	english.chass.ncsu.edu /freeverse/Archives/Spring_2002/reviews/J_Thompson.html (1193 words)

	Books of the poet: George Oppen - book works writings work
		Oppen led a singular life in that, among other reasons, he began his writing career in the mid-1930s and then underwent a 24-year silence before returning to poetry in 1958.
		During this time, Oppen travelled with his wife, Mary, worked as a social activist and as a machinist, served in the U.S. Army during WW II, and was active in the communist party.
		Oppen was a wanderer and describes the sea, the Bahamas, the European Theatre of WW II, his birthplace of New Rochelle and other places throughout his poetry.
	www.poemhunter.com /george-oppen/books (1409 words)

	George Oppen, A Radical Practice
		Certainly a poetry as infused with the mercurial perception of appearance, and mercurial appearance of perception, as that of George Oppen's, deserves all the investigative attention to border-flux that Susan Thackrey brings to her Oppen Memorial Lecture, "A Radical Practice," which O Books and The Poetry Center have generously turned into text.
		She offers much thoughtful scholarship regarding criticism of Oppen's work, as well as regarding his affinity with some of Heidegger's views, particularly that "truth is no longer defined as the congruence of a concept and a thing but as the ongoing disclosure of 'beings' (or 'things' or 'entities', depending upon the translation.)" (33).
		Thackrey infuses her discussion of Oppen's poems with a sense of the risk and rigor of a poetic practice that demands an "adherence to actualness" when that actualness is understood as "without the certainty, the anchor of completed presence" (36).
	www.obooks.com /books/George_OppenARP.htm (1090 words)

	Oppen on Reznikiff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		George Oppen: That poem of Charles' that begins: "As I, barbarian, at last, although slowly, could read Greek,/ at 'blue-eyed Athena'" and it goes on and on.
		George Oppen: The last time I tried to praise Charles to himself, he had once interrupted to say, "George, I'm sure we both do, the best we can." A difficult man to praise and this is my opportunity.
		George Oppen's introduction to Charles Reznikoff on March 21st, 1974 at San Francisco State University was transcribed by Kyle Schlesinger.
	epc.buffalo.edu /authors/reznikoff/Oppen.html (681 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Groundbreaking Book: Of Being Numerous by George Oppen (1968)
		A self-declared Objectivist poet, George Oppen was greatly influenced by William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, and Charles Reznikoff.
		During the Depression, Oppen and his wife moved increasingly to the political left, becoming social activists and joining the Communist party in 1935.
		After serving in World War II, Oppen returned to New York and found that his politics made him a target of the House Un-American Activities Committee, forcing him to flee with his wife to Mexico in 1950.
	www.poets.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/5973 (271 words)

	WarPoetry9
		George Oppen had already, in the 1930s, detached himself from Pound's charismatic attraction, though he never denied the older poet's central importance to the kind of poetry he believed in.
		Oppen's poetry is built with strongly marked line breaks and a rejection of terminal punctuation in sentences: this takes place on a canvas with an uncompromising use of white space to solemnize the encounter between the chosen and the void.
		Part of what Oppen achieves is a constant set of contradictions created within syntax, and these are, at the same time, the ethical experiences he proposes: love and rage, alienation and populism, the singular and the multitude, the "level of art" and the "me too of art," the children and the cataclysm.
	mason.gmu.edu /~stichy/WarPoetry9.html (3153 words)

	Review: New Collected Poems by George Oppen \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		George August Oppenheimer (the family name was changed in 1927) was born in New York in 1908.
		With Zukofsky and Reznikoff, Oppen and his wife founded what was to become the Objectivist Press, objectivism being a left-minded modernism influenced by Ezra Pound's imagism, William Carlos Williams' vernacular minimalism, and coming to incorporate, as well as its originators, Lorine Niedecker, Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Rakosi and Kenneth Rexroth.
		Oppen fought in the second world war, surviving (as a number of subsequent poems recall) by leaping into a foxhole to escape enemy fire.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/poetry/0,6121,1080351,00.html (1359 words)

	Amazon.ca: Selected Poems Of George Oppen: Books: George Oppen,Robert Creeley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Oppen, an American poet whose work stems from the Objectivist movement of the 1930s, was a realist and his work slots neatly into the 20th Century denotative tradition.
		George Oppen was born into a wealthy American Jewish family in New York State and grew up in California.
		Writers like Oppen were experiencing a consumerist world without reverence, in which just pressing a button could demolish civilization: a world, in other words, in which nothing seemed made to last or even to matter.
	www.amazon.ca /Selected-Poems-George-Oppen/dp/0811215571 (1767 words)

	oppen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		George Oppen was born in New Rochelle, NY, in 1908.
		Oppen's early childhood was marked by the suicide of his mother and, in 1918, by the family's move to San Francisco.
		In the early 1930s, Oppen became a co-founder of the two primary presses associated with the Objectivist movement: To Publishers and The Objectivist Press.
	students.washington.edu /dwhunts/oppen.htm (207 words)

	Oppen, George Criticism and Essays
		Oppen was one of the founders of Objectivism, a movement in American poetry during the early 1930s dedicated to extending Imagism by making the poem itself an object.
		Oppen wrote and ran To Publishers, the press he established which published the new Objectivist poets as well as Pound and Williams.
		There also is a large body of appreciative Oppen scholarship concerned with explicating his poetry, understanding its connection to movements such as Cubism and Abstract Expressionism, relating it to his politics and to his life, and exploring its connection to the work of philosophers important to him, especially to Heidegger and Kierkegaard.
	www.enotes.com /twentieth-century-criticism/oppen-george (1118 words)

	CJO - Full Text HTML (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Oppen later remembered their work for the Farmers’ Union during the New York Milk Strike in Utica and his own role as “the best of the soap-boxers” during the 1936 King’s County election campaign for the Communist Party.
		George was no longer writing poetry, but he seems to have wanted privately to disown what he had previously written and studiously concealed from his friends and even from his daughter his earlier career as a poet.
		Oppen’s reticence about his early poetic ambitions was characteristic of the kind of reserve that prevailed in the exiled community.
	journals.cambridge.org /action/displayFulltext?type=6&fid=317818&jid=&volumeId=&issueId=01&aid=291582 (7257 words)

	Poetry: Julia Alvarez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		George Oppen Literary Papers at University of California—San Diego
		George Oppen (1908—1984) was born in New Rochelle, New York, the son of George August Oppenheimer, a diamond merchant, and Elsie Rothfeld.
		He was a leading figure among the Objectivists, a group of poets who shared the conviction that the poet must be faithful to the world of facts (“The Forms of Love” is an example of the philosophy of objectivism).
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/poetry/oppen.htm (292 words)

	Oppen, George Criticism and Essays \| JONATHAN GALASSI
		George Oppen's Collected Poems is … the record of a lifelong confrontation between an unimpeachably free spirit's sense of order and "a world of things"….
		Oppen's lines move in fits and starts; they are slowly accrued "discrete series" of phrases, chains of associations which aim directly, often painfully, at an identifiable point.
		The conception of the poet's role as that of the teacher accounts for the openly, even severely didactic tone of much of Oppen's work, though the sobriety and ponderousness are occasionally relieved by pure word-pictures, which Oppen uses to beautiful effect….
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/oppen-george/jonathan-galassi (176 words)

	George and Mary Oppen, women's handbook, oregon state univerity, 1927 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Both George and Mary were forced to leave the university before the end of their first semester--George for a semester and Mary for good--because of violating the girl's dormitory curfew while on their first date.
		Oppen then worked as a die cutter in a factory until 1942 when he was drafted into the United States Army.
		Oppen was forced to give up his business and flee to Mexico with his family in 1950, after the FBI(click here) began to threaten him and Mary with imprisonment for their refusal to betray their friends.
	www.corvalliscommunitypages.com /Americas/US/Oregon/corvallis/oppens.htm (1147 words)

	GEORGE OPPEN: New Collected Poems
		George Oppen is one of the great poets of the 20th century, whose influence is far reaching among practicing poets of the avant garde.
		Oppen, as well as his fellow Objectivists, needed to develop new aesthetic strategies that would allow them to ‘deal with the social trauma of increased modernization,’ yet in a way that did not stray into ‘mythic universals or distancing personae’ utilized by Pound, Eliot, Yeats and Joyce.
		It is understandable that Oppen did not collect this poem, for it is difficult to suggest a place for it among his books; yet as a stand-alone poem, and one that gives insight to Oppen himself, it is very good.
	www.flashpointmag.com /oppenrev.htm (2195 words)

	Sendecki’s Blog - Charles Bernstein on George Oppen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Oppen’s syntax is fashioned on constructive, rather than mimetic, principles.
		This tension, which can produce the kinetic, stuttering vibrancy of some of Oppen’s most intense poems, is at the heart of his use of the line break as hinge.
		The typical Oppen hinge is made by starting a line with a preposition, commonly “Of”).
	www.sendecki.com /2007/04/20/bernstein-on-oppen (322 words)

	Amazon.com: "George Oppen": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		2 Selected Letters of George Oppen one or two obviously regrettable faults (the printer regularly acts contrary to instructions at the last moment, and is careless...
		Mary and George Oppen appeared on the scene some time in 1930-Mary in the golden beauty of her youth, and George, dark, handsome and...
		Depression Glass: Documentary Photography and the Medium of the Camera Eye in Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, and William Carlos Williams (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Monique Vescia
	www.amazon.com /phrase/George-Oppen (408 words)

	George Oppen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Edited by Michael Davidson (New Directions, 2002) Reviewed in Flash Point by Brad Haas, who writes "George Oppen is one of the great poets of the 20th century, whose influence is far reaching among practicing poets of the avant garde.
		By catboat to New York "George Oppen's commitment to linguistic truth was impressive, says David Herd, after reading his New Collected Poems," November 8, 2003, in The Guardian
		An introduction to George Oppen, plus excerpts of reputable critical discussions of some poems, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois)
	www.literaryhistory.com /20thC/Oppen.htm (159 words)

	Poets&Writers, Inc.
		Born almost a century ago, Oppen fought and was injured in World War II, published his first book when he was in his mid-twenties, then stopped writing and joined the Communist Party.
		The French in the audience largely saw Oppen as "difficult" in the way that Zukofsky is, but many Americans in the audience, spurred-on by Carl's remark, defended the "plain style" Oppen.
		The fact that Oppen has generated such widespread debate suggests that he can be read from a number of different optics.
	www.pw.org /mag/dq_oppen.htm (891 words)

	George Oppen Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		George Oppen has had one of the most unusual careers of any American poet.
		Oppen was born in New Rochelle, New York, and grew up in a well-to-do family in San Francisco.
		Mary Oppen writes in her autobiography, Meaning a Life (1978), "We had learned at college that poetry was being written in our own times, and that in order for u.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography/george-oppen-dlb (195 words)

	Superfluities Store - New Collected Poems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		George Oppen's New Collected Poems brings together all of the great Objectivist poet's published work, together with a selection of his previously unpublished poems.
		George Oppen's New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poems published in books during his lifetime (1908-84), as well as previously uncollected poems and also a selection of his unpublished work.
		Oppen, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, has long been acknowledged as one of America's foremost modernists.
	astore.amazon.com /gp/detail.html?tag=superfluities-20&linkCode=sb1&camp=212353&creative=380565&asin=0811214885 (205 words)

	Objectivist Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Beginning in the 1930s, these six poets (five Americans and an Englishman) formed the core of an avant-garde, Leftist poetry movement that combined elements of Imagism, Marxist thought, and their unique understanding of artistic "sincerity" into a style that remains influential among experimental poets to this day.
		George Oppen is born in New Rochelle, NY.
		Featuring the work of Zukofsky himself, Reznikoff, Rakosi, Oppen, Bunting, William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, and many lesser-known poets, this issue will eventually be recognized as the founding document of Objectivist poetics.
	students.washington.edu /dwhunts/objectivism.htm (1236 words)

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