Poetry of the PossibleThe Poetry of the Possible challenges the conventional image of modernism as a socially phobic formation, arguing that modernisms abstractions and difficulties are ways of imagining unrealized powers of collective self organization. Establishing a conceptual continuum between modernism and contemporary theorists such as Paulo Virno, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, and Alain Badiou, Joel Nickels rediscovers modernisms attempts to document the creative