This in Which

Name: This in Which
Author: George Oppen

by George Oppen

Meditative sequence on being, existence, and human consciousness

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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.

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Discrete SeriesSparse, minimal poems emphasizing objecthood and material presence
The MaterialsPoems exploring ordinary objects and immediate sensory experience
Of Being NumerousEpic poem about community, witness, and human interdependence
Seascape Needle's EyeLate work exploring perception, mortality, and natural forms