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Being Numerous : Poetry and the Ground of Social Life /

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Izenberg, Oren
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.