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New Collected Poems, by George Oppen, edited by Michael Davidson (New Di- rections; $37.95). Oppen, a Commu- nist and an objectivist poet deeply in- fluenced by Pound and Williams, believed that there were no ideas except in things, but he also believed, fiercely, that our relationship to things was inherently moral -- "There are things / We live among 'and to see them / Is to know ourselves.' " In 1934, he published a book of stunning, elliptical lyrics about "big-Business" and ...