The Materials

Name: The Materials
Author: George Oppen

by George Oppen

Poems exploring ordinary objects and immediate sensory experience

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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.

More by George Oppen

Discrete SeriesSparse, minimal poems emphasizing objecthood and material presence
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