In Dark Again in Wonder: The Poetry of René Char and George OppenAt the center of In Dark Again in Wonder are readings of Ren Char (1907 88) and George Oppen (1908 84). Both of these poets achieved recognition at a young age, Char among the French surrealists in the 1930s, and Oppen among the American objectivists in the same decade. Both were independent individuals who, having found their way to communities of inventive writers, stepped back and shaped their own idiosyncratic paths. Both responded decisively to