Heir to the democratic and poetic sensibilities of Walt Whitman and
Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bernstein has always crafted verse that
responds to its historical moment, but no previous collection of
his poems so specifically addresses the events of its time as
"Girly Man, "which" "features works written on the evening of
September 11, 2001, and in response to the war in Iraq. Here,
Bernstein speaks out, combining self-deprecating humor with
incisive philosophical and political thinking.
Composed of works of very different forms and moods--etchings from
moments of acute crisis, comic excursions, formal excavations,
confrontations with the cultural illogics of contemporary political
consciousness--the poems work as an ensemble, each part
contributing something necessary to an unrealizable and
unrepresentable whole.
A passionate defense of contingency, resistance, and multiplicity,
"Girly Man "is a provocative and aesthetically challenging
collection of radical verse from one of America's most
controversial poets.
"A major achievement. . . . Anyone interested in contemporary
poetry should seek out the collection, if only to read one of our
most provocative poet-critics writing his most engaging poems to
date."--Thomas Devaney, "Philadelphia" "Inquirer" "Charles
Bernstein writes both prose and poetry about poetry, sometimes
brilliantly, in ways calculated to upset the middlebrow and thwart
the bland. The more you like the poetic equivalent of a nice tune,
easy to hum, the more Bernstein means to disrupt your
complacency."--Robert Pinsky, "Washington Post"
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