George Oppen
American objectivist poet whose Of Being Numerous won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. He was silent for 25 years for political reasons and his late poetry is among the most philosophically searching in American poetry.
Works
- Discrete SeriesSparse, minimal poems emphasizing objecthood and material presence
- The MaterialsPoems exploring ordinary objects and immediate sensory experience
- This in WhichMeditative sequence on being, existence, and human consciousness
- Of Being NumerousEpic poem about community, witness, and human interdependence
- Seascape Needle's EyeLate work exploring perception, mortality, and natural forms