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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| Series: | 20/21 (Princeton, N.J.)
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Table of Contents:
- 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.