Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984

by Charles Bernstein

Book Overview

Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984 is the celebrated introduction to language poetry by one of its leading practitioners. First published in 1986 and now a classic study of poetry and poetics in late twentieth-century America, this collection offers thirty-seven of Bernstein's essays, including the influential works "Thought's Measure" and "Semblance." Bernstein ranges over poets and visual artists as diverse as William Carlos Williams, Louis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810118459
• ISBN13: 9780810118454
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 465 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.1"