Being Numerous : : Poetry and the Ground of Social Life / / Oren Izenberg.
"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? In Being Numerous, Oren Izenberg offers a new way to understand the divisions that organize twentieth-century poetry. He argues that...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | 20/21
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 15 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Poems, Poetry, Personhood
- Chapter one. White Thin Bone: Yeatsian Personhood
- Chapter two. Oppen's Silence, Crusoe's Silence, and the Silence of Other Minds
- Chapter three. The Justice of My Feelings for Frank O'Hara
- Chapter four. Language Poetry and Collective Life
- Chapter five. We Are Reading
- Notes
- Index