{"product_id":"omnicompetent-modernists-poetry-politics-and-the-public-sphere-paperback","title":"Omnicompetent Modernists: Poetry, Politics, and the Public Sphere - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew Hofer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn innovative exploration of early twentieth-century avant-garde poetry's relationship to the public sphere\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"It is difficult \/ to get the news from poems \/ yet men die miserably every day \/ for lack \/ of what is found there,\" as the poet William Carlos Williams memorably declared. In \u003ci\u003eOmnicompetent Modernists: Poetry, Politics, and the Public Sphere\u003c\/i\u003e, Matthew Hofer examines, through a multilayered literary critique of interwar modernist poetry, what it might mean to get the news, and more, from a poet. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Using pragmatist ideas about the public sphere as a tool, Hofer reveals how Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, and Mina Loy sought to use literature to both express and enable thought. In Hughes, Pound, and Loy, Hofer attends to poets whose work vigorously imagined possible new relationships between language, thinking, and public society. Each poet had different goals and used different methods, but all found both inspiration and encouragement in popular political theory. Hughes advocated for a more just vision of color and class in the United States. Pound sought to condemn those whom he associated with public harm, linguistically, socially, economically, and politically. Loy championed the \"psycho-democratic\" representation of women, in both public and private life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Although Hughes, Pound, and Loy are rarely considered together, what unites these three writers is how each reconceived the public realm, and revolutionized aesthetic form to articulate those visions. Hofer combines sharp intellectual historiography with rigorous literary criticism and the result is a study that reinvigorates both the poems and poets under consideration and speaks to the immense power of language in manipulating public opinion--with pertinent implications for the politics of the present. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew Hofer\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English at the University of New Mexico and edits the series \u003ci\u003eRecencies: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e. He is coeditor of many volumes, including expanded facsimile editions of \u003ci\u003eLEGEND \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eL=A=N=G=U=A=G=\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eE\u003c\/i\u003e as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Language Letters: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelected 1970s Correspondence of Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, and Ron\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Silliman\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 282\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 8.98 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42157525368967,"sku":"9780817360610","price":64.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/5973c83829335d041b2a5b3643f6d96b.webp?v=1733251542","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/omnicompetent-modernists-poetry-politics-and-the-public-sphere-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}