Pitch of Poetry by Charles Bernstein
Praised in recent years as a “calculating, improvisatory, essential poet” by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American literary theory. Pitch of Poetry is his irreverent guide to modernist and contemporary poetics. Subjects range across Holocaust representation, Occupy Wall Street, and the figurative nature of abstract art. Detailed overviews of formally inventive work include essays on—or “pitches” for—a set of key poets, from Gertrude Stein and Robert Creeley to John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Larry Eigner, and Leslie Scalapino. Bernstein also reveals the formative ideas behind the magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. The final section, published here for the first time, is a sweeping work on the poetics of stigma, perversity, and disability that is rooted in the thinking of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Blake. Pitch of Poetry makes an exhilarating case for what Bernstein calls echopoetics: a poetry of call and response, reason and imagination, disfiguration and refiguration.At the State University of New York in Buffalo, Charles Bernstein is the David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters. He is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, including Islets/Irritations and Republics of Reality: 1975-1995, in addition to My Way: Speeches and Poems. He is also the author of two collections of essays, A Poetics and Content's Dream, and more than twenty collections of essays, A Poetics and Content's Dream.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226332086 |
| ISBN 10 | 022633208X |
| Title | Pitch of Poetry |
| Author | Charles Bernstein |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2016-03-21 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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