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George Oppen

Poetry News:

— Thanks to poetry, X=imagine the possibilities —

— Salt To Expand Its Stable Of Free Online Literary Magazines —

— His meteoric poetic output began with his first professionally published poem at 16, but by 20 he stopped writing poetry and would later declare of his work: “All of that was just pig swill.” [...]

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Poetry News:

— Robert Burns poems podcast —

— Winter Night by Po Chu-I, translated by David Hinton —

— George Oppen, who wrote some of the most austerely beautiful poems of the twentieth century, is known best for not writing at all —

— A cry of “Holy cow!” went up when an envelope was opened recently at [...]

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