My Way
Speeches and Poems
Published on 1. February 1999
Book
Hardback
329 pages
978-0-226-04409-5 (ISBN)
Description
This text explores the place of poetry in American culture and in the university. Addressing many interrelated issues, Charles Bernstein moves from the role of the public intellectual to the poetics of scholarly prose, from vernacular modernism to idiosyncratic postmodernism, from identity politics to the resurgence of the aesthetic, from cultural studies to poetry as a performance art, from the small press movement to the Web. Along the way he provides "close listening" to such poets as Charles Reznikoff, Laura Riding, Susan Howe, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, and Gertrude Stein, as well as a fresh perspective on "LANGUAGE," the magazine he coedited that became a fulcrum for a new wave of North American writing. Bernstein offers essays in poetic lines, prose with poetic motifs, interviews miming speech and speeches veering into song, illuminating the developments in the late 1990s in contemporary poetry with his own contributions to them.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Publishing group
The University of Chicago Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 23 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-226-04409-5 (9780226044095)
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Content
Preface A Defense of Poetry The Revenge of the Poet-Critic, or The Parts Are Greater Than the Sum of the Whole Thelonious Monk and the Performance of Poetry An Interview with Manuel Brito Solidarity Is the Name We Give to What We Cannot Hold What's Art Got to Do with It?: The Status of the Subject of the Humanities in an Age of Cultural Studies A Test of Poetry The Book as Architecture Dear Mr. Fanelli An Interview with Hannah Mockel-Rieke I Don't Take Voice Mail: The Object of Art in the Age of Electronic Technology Weak Links (on Hannah Weiner) Claire-in-the-Building Again Eigner Frame Lock "Passed by Examination": Paragraphs for Susan Howe The Value of Sulfur Shaker Show Gertrude and Ludwig's Bogus Adventure Introjective Verse Poetics of the Americas Unzip Bleed Lachrymose Encaustic / Abrasive Tear Stein's Identity Provisional Institutions: Alternative Presses and Poetic Innovation Pound and the Poetry of Today Inappropriate Touching Robin on His Own (on Robin Blaser) Water Images of The New Yorker The Response as Such: Words in Visibility From an Ongoing Interview with Tom Beckett Explicit Version Number Required Hinge Picture (on George Oppen) Reznikoff's Nearness An Autobiographical Interview Beyond Emaciation Riding's Reason Whose He Kidding Unrepresentative Verse (on Ginsberg and Eliot) Poetry and [Male?] Sex Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word Taps [In memoriam Eric Mottram] Warning - Poetry Area: Publics under Construction The Republic of Reality Notes and Acknowledgments