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My wife is a big fan of George Oppen and I got into him. I could have a career like his. It's not an alpha male situation, George Oppen. It's quiet. It's poetry.He just lived a life of an intellectual poet.

Stephen Malkmus

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Stephen Malkmus
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 30
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