The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein

William Allegrezza

• Publisher: Salt
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781844714858
• eBook ISBN:
  9781784632441
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein presents scholarship on one of the U.S.'s best living innovative poets. Scholars explore major themes in his work, and poets present pieces inspired by his poetry. The book is intended for both scholars looking for informed critical insight into Bernstein's work as well as for students to examine his work.The scholarship covers many of his major pieces and genres, like sound, stage, and poetry. The authors write about his main themes and influences and give insight into some of the major poetry ideas currently being debated in the U.S., such as the nature and future of experimental poetry, the influences on contemporary poetry, the politics of poetry, and wide variety of techniques currently being used. This book is valuable to individuals interested in poetry and libraries trying to stay abreast of the most important recent literary criticism/currents.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• 1: Introduction
• 2: Charles Bernstein or an Insistence to Communicate
• 3: Either You’re With Us and Against Us: Charles Bernstein’s Girly Man, 9/11, and the Brechtian Figure of the Reader
• 4: The Cave Children of New York Are Never Free
• 5: The Metaphysical Mouth and the Asylum of the Everyday: Charles Bernstein and Contemporary Continental Philosophy of Language
• 6: Voluming░░░Dimensionalizing Gazoop What Gazoop Gazoop In A Restless World Like This Gazoop
• 7: Girly Men Ballads: (Il)legible Identities in Charles Bernstein and Gertrude Stein
• 8: That Poem For Charles Bernstein
• 9: “Spectres of Benjamin”: (Re) presentation and (Re)semblance in Charles Bernstein’s Shadowtime
• 10: What As Poetic
• 11: Taking on the Official Voice: Charles Bernstein’s Poetic Sophistry and Post-Process Writing Pedagogy
• 12: From The Alphabet
• 13: Beyond the Valley of the Sophist: Charles Bernstein, Irony, and Solidarity
• 14: Poem for Charles
• 15: To Think Figuratively, Tropically: Charles Bernstein’s Post-9/11 Grammar and Pragmatist Lessons in the Age of Baudrillard
• 16: Charles Bernstein’s Anti-Suburban Poetry
• 17: Some Nouns
• 18: From a Philosophy of Poetry to Poetry as Philosophy: The Dialectical Poetics of Charles Bernstein
• 19: Content’s Profusion: Noise, Interruption and Reverse Peristalsis in the poetics of Charles Bernstein
• 20: Charles Bernstein in Buffalo 1999–2004
• 21: Charles Bernstein’s Catalogue Poetry
• 22: Readdressing Constructivism and Conceptual Art: aspects of work factured by Charles Bernstein
• 23: circles from which
• 24: Visual Strategies: a Line, a Verse, Something on Paper
• 25: After Residual Rubbernecking (a speculative non-serial anti-romance)
• 26: A Life, Spliced: On the Early Tapeworks of Charles Bernstein
• Notes on Contributors
• Credits
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Copyright