Omnicompetent Modernists by Matthew Hofer PAPERBACK 9780817360610

Omnicompetent Modernists\nby Matthew Hofer\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Matthew Hofer\nTitle: Omnicompetent Modernists\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: poetry and poets\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press\nPublication year: 2022\nISBN-13: 9780817360610\nISBN-10: 0817360611\nRRP: \u00A333.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\u201CIt is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there\u201D, as the poet William Carlos Williams memorably declared. 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.\n\n\u201CIt is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / fo.