The Kinds of Poetry I Want
Essays & Comedies
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The Kinds of Poetry I Want
Essays & Comedies
A celebration of the radical poetics of invention from Charles Bernstein.
For more than four decades, Charles Bernstein has been at the forefront of experimental poetry, ever reaching for a radical poetics that defies schools, periods, and cultural institutions. The Kinds of Poetry I Want is a celebration of invention and includes not only poetry but also essays on aesthetics and literary studies, interviews with other poets, autobiographical sketches, and more.
At once a dialogic novel, long poem, and grand opera, The Kinds of Poetry I Want arrives amid renewed attacks on humanistic expression. In his polemical, humorous style, Bernstein faces these challenges head-on and affirms the enduring vitality and attraction of poetry, poetics, and literary criticism.
For more than four decades, Charles Bernstein has been at the forefront of experimental poetry, ever reaching for a radical poetics that defies schools, periods, and cultural institutions. The Kinds of Poetry I Want is a celebration of invention and includes not only poetry but also essays on aesthetics and literary studies, interviews with other poets, autobiographical sketches, and more.
At once a dialogic novel, long poem, and grand opera, The Kinds of Poetry I Want arrives amid renewed attacks on humanistic expression. In his polemical, humorous style, Bernstein faces these challenges head-on and affirms the enduring vitality and attraction of poetry, poetics, and literary criticism.
368 pages | 13 halftones, 3 tables | 6 x 9
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
Table of Contents
Foreword by Paul Auster
Act One: Pixellation
Ocular Truth and the Irreparable [Veil]
The Body of the Poem
95 Theses
The Unreliable Lyric
A Fabric of Expectation
Offbeat
Groucho and Me
Shadows
Pesapalabra Interview
The Brink of Continuity
The Poetics List
The Swerve of Verse
“Too Philosophical for a Poet”
Act Two: Kinds
Free Thinking: Spring and All versus The Waste Land at 100
#CageFreePoetry
Forewords & Backwords
Weathermen
Three Flasks of Gin with a Flax Chaser
Stein Stein Stein
Dichtung Yammer
Act Three: Doubletalk
Summa contra Gentiles
UP against Storytelling, for David Antin
Doubletalking the Homophonic Sublime
Index of Names and Titles
Coda (Echo): Index of Motifs
Act One: Pixellation
Ocular Truth and the Irreparable [Veil]
The Body of the Poem
95 Theses
The Unreliable Lyric
A Fabric of Expectation
Offbeat
Groucho and Me
Shadows
Pesapalabra Interview
The Brink of Continuity
The Poetics List
The Swerve of Verse
“Too Philosophical for a Poet”
Act Two: Kinds
Free Thinking: Spring and All versus The Waste Land at 100
#CageFreePoetry
Forewords & Backwords
Weathermen
Three Flasks of Gin with a Flax Chaser
Stein Stein Stein
Dichtung Yammer
Act Three: Doubletalk
Summa contra Gentiles
UP against Storytelling, for David Antin
Doubletalking the Homophonic Sublime
Index of Names and Titles
Coda (Echo): Index of Motifs