George Oppen
His own first book of poetry, Discrete Series came out in 1934. Ezra Pound wrote its Preface. Oppen joined the Communist Party in 1935 but left it in 1942 and joined the U. S. Army to fight fascism. He was wounded during World War II. After the war he became a cabinet-maker in Los Angeles. Due to American anti-communism, he moved to Mexico in 1950. After 1958, he and his wife Mary lived mostly in San Francisco.