Too Numerous

by Kent Shaw

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 cataloging 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.”

Genres: Poetry

88 pages, ebook

Published May 26, 2019

About the author

Kent Shaw is the author of Too Numerous (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019) and Calenture (University of Tampa Press, 2008). His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, The Believer, Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and others. He has a PhD at University of Houston and an MFA from Washington University. For five years he taught at West Virginia State University. He now teaches at Wheaton College in Massachusetts.

Reviews

[Jared W · Rating 5 out of 5]

Saw this author read in Providence. He went on & on about how small his diction is. His references were too numerous to decipher.