Kinds of Poetry I Want

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/Miss and Topsy-Turvy, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• Foreword by Paul AusterAct One: PixellationOcular Truth and the Irreparable [Veil]The Body of the Poem95 ThesesThe Unreliable LyricA Fabric of ExpectationOffbeatGroucho and MeShadowsPesapalabra InterviewThe Brink of ContinuityThe Poetics ListThe Swerve of Verse“Too Philosophical for a Poet”Act Two: KindsFree Thinking: Spring and All versus The Waste Land at 100#CageFreePoetryForewords & BackwordsWeathermenThree Flasks of Gin with a Flax ChaserStein Stein SteinDichtung YammerAct Three: DoubletalkSumma contra GentilesUP against Storytelling, for David AntinDoubletalking the Homophonic SublimeIndex of Names and TitlesCoda (Echo): Index of Motifs

"This is not so much a collection of poems, as conventionally understood, as a display of the possibilities for poetry. Each work here is not just in a different style or form but rather explores different aspects of poetry as a medium: resounding, re- vising, resonating, re- calling, re- performing, reimaginings."