{"product_id":"being-numerous-9780691148663","title":"Being Numerous","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a fresh way to understand the divisions that organize twentieth-century poetry. The author 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A blazingly astute assessment of postmodern poetics, Oren Izenberg's Being Numerous examines the role contemporary poetry plays in representing being and what constitutes value of being.\"--Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Brooklyn Rail \"[Izenberg] makes an intriguing case for focusing on the ontological dimension of poetic practice in general; readers might move beyond seeing the poem as a self-contained artifact and instead see it as a function of the poet's desire to define the person.\"--Choice \"Izenberg's conclusive meditation on known and unknown readers, then, seems to open and invite the readings that this book will generate, as it powerfully, scrupulously recalls us to the responsibilities inherent in any literary response.\"--Siobhan Phillips, Contemporary Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii  INTRODUCTION: Poems, Poetry, Personhood 1  CHAPTER ONE: White Thin Bone: Yeatsian Personhood 40  CHAPTER TWO: Oppen's Silence, Crusoe's Silence, and the Silence of Other Minds 78  CHAPTER THREE: The Justice of My Feelings for Frank O'Hara 107  CHAPTER FOUR: Language Poetry and Collective Life 138  CHAPTER FIVE: We Are Reading 164  Notes 189  Index 225","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403780268375,"sku":"9780691148663","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691148663.jpg?v=1730484521","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/being-numerous-9780691148663","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}