The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays Comedies [Hardcover]

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 Wantis 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 Wantarrives 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.Charles Bernstein, winner of the 2019 Bollingen Prize, is the Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of many books, most recently two volumes of poetry,Near/MissandTopsy-Turvy, also published by the University of Chicago Press.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
PesapalabraInterview
The Brink of Continuity
The Poetics List
The Swerve of Verse
“Too Philosophical for a Poet”

Act Two: Kinds
Free Thinking:Spring and AllversusThe Waste Landat 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 th