Being Numerous Poetry and the Ground of Social Life

Name: Being Numerous Poetry and the Ground of Social Life
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ISBN: 9780691148663

ISBN-10: 069114866X

ISBN-13: 9780691148663

Edition: 2011

Authors: Oren Izenberg

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"Because I am not silent," George Oppen wrote, "the poems are bad." What does it mean for the goodness of an art to depend upon its disappearance? InBeing Numerous, Oren Izenberg offers a new way to understand the divisions that organize twentieth-century poetry. He argues that the most important conflict is not between styles or aesthetic politics, but between poets who seek to preserve or produce the incommensurable particularity of experience by making powerful objects, and poets whose radical commitment to abstract personhood seems altogether incompatible with experience--and with poems.Reading across the apparent gulf that separates traditional and avant-garde poets, Izenberg reveals…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/25/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.792



Acknowledgments


Introduction Poems, Poetry, Personhood



White Thin Bone: Yeatsian Personhood



Oppen's Silence, Crusoe's Silence, and the Silence of Other Minds



The Justice of My Feelings for Frank O'Hara



Language Poetry and Collective Life



We Are Reading


Notes


Index