01777nam 2200397 450 991079361550332120230817182210.01-61376-680-7(CKB)4100000009273334(MiAaPQ)EBC5894426(EXLCZ)99410000000927333420191029d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierToo numerous /Kent ShawAmherst ;Boston :University of Massachusetts Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (vii, 69 pages)Juniper Prize for Poetry1-62534-430-9 "What does it really mean when people are viewed as bytes of data? And is there beauty or an imaginative potential to information culture and the databases cataloguing it? As Too Numerous reveals, the raw material of bytes and data points can be reshaped and repurposed for ridiculous, melancholic, and even aesthetic purposes. Grappling with an information culture that is both intimidating and daunting, Kent Shaw considers the impersonality represented by the continuing accumulation of personal information and the felicities--and barriers--that result: The us that was inside us was magnificent structures. And they weren't going to grow any larger"--Provided by publisher.Juniper Prize for Poetry.American prose literature21st centuryAmerican prose literature818.609Shaw Kent1971-1569932MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910793615503321Too numerous3843185UNINA