Word: oppen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. George Oppen, 76, Pulitzer-prizewinning poet of spare, free-form verse; in Sunnyvale, Calif. An active leftist, he gave up poetry for 28 years for political involvement, living by publishing the work of such poets as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and by laboring as a tool-and-die maker and furniture designer...
...Oppen's concert for an audience of 400 in Sanders Theater last night raised "at least $15,000" for the club, according to president Beverly B. Weinfeld...