Facts: - death place: california , u.s. - caption: december friedman -rrb- 1980 berkeley , ca -lrb- photo by richard - death date: 7 july 1984 - birth date: 24 april 1908 - name: george oppen - image: george oppen.jpg - birth place: new rochelle , new york , u.s. - occupation: poet Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of george oppen .
george oppen -lrb- april 24 , 1908 -- july 7 , 1984 -rrb- was an american poet , best known as one of the members of the objectivist group of poets .he abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism and later moved to mexico to avoid the attentions of the house un-american activities committee .he returned to poetry -- and to the united states -- in 1958 , and received the pulitzer prize in 1969 .