George Oppen (1908-1984) was born in New York and died in San Francisco. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968 for Of Being Numerous. His work is available in New Collected Poems, edited by Michael Davidson (2002); Selected Poems, edited by Robert Creeley (2003); and Selected Letters of George Oppen, edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis (1990). Stephen Cope received his PhD in 2005 from the University of California, San Diego, where he was a research fellow at the Archive for New Poetry, where Oppen's papers are housed. He has taught at universities in California, Iowa, and Ohio.
