George is the author of five books of poetry, including The New World. He also translated Daisy Zamora’s collection The Violent Foam, co-translated The Time Tree, poems by Vietnamese poet Huu Thinh and edited Charles Olson & Cid Corman: Complete Correspondence. His poetry, fiction, essays, and translations have been widely published in the US and abroad; and his literary awards include fellowships from the NEA, Lannan Foundation, California Arts Council and the Japanese government. An antiwar activist veteran of the Viet Nam-American War, his protest activities while in Viet Nam were one of the subjects of the 2006 radio series Shared Weight, a six-episode program addressing the impact of war on culture and society produced for National Public Radio (NPR) by the Center for Emerging Media.
