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100 1 Izenberg, Oren.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
no2010041468
245 10 Being numerous :|bpoetry and the ground of social life /
|cOren Izenberg.
264 1 Princeton :|bPrinceton University Press,|c[2011]
264 4 |c©2011
300 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) :|billustrations.
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504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-224) and
index.
505 0 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.
520 "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 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 the common
philosophical urgency that lies behind diverse forms of
poetic difficulty--from Yeats's esoteric symbolism and
Oppen's minimalism and silence to O'Hara's joyful
slightness and the Language poets' rejection of
traditional aesthetic satisfactions. For these poets, what
begins as a practical question about the conduct of
literary life--what distinguishes a poet or group of
poets?--ends up as an ontological inquiry about social
life: What is a person and how is a community possible? In
the face of the violence and dislocation of the twentieth
century, these poets resist their will to mastery, shy
away from the sensual richness of their strongest work,
and undermine the particularity of their imaginative and
moral visions--all in an effort to allow personhood itself
to emerge as an undeniable fact making an unrefusable
claim. --From publisher's description.
588 0 Print version record.
590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic
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648 7 20th century|2fast
648 7 1900 - 1999|2fast
650 0 Poetry, Modern|y20th century|xHistory and criticism|0https
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655 4 Electronic books.
655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0https://
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aIzenberg, Oren.|tBeing numerous.
|dPrinceton : Princeton University Press, ©2011
|z9780691144832|w(DLC) 2010020738|w(OCoLC)587249037
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