Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions

by Charles Bernstein

Book Overview

Charles Bernstein is our postmodern jester of American poesy, equal part surveyor of democratic vistas and scholar of avant-garde sensibilities. In a career spanning thirty-five years and forty books, he has challenged and provoked us with writing that is decidedly unafraid of the tensions between ordinary and poetic language, and between everyday life and its adversaries. Attack of the Difficult Poems, his latest collection of essays, gathers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226044777
• ISBN13: 9780226044774
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"