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Girly man
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- Book Synopsis
- After 9/11, postmodernism and irony were declared dead. Charles Bernstein here proves them alive and well in poems elegiac, defiant, and resilient to the point of approaching song. Heir to the democratic and poetic sensibilities of Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg, 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, whichfeatures 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. Indeed, representation-and related claims to truth and moral certainty-is an active concern throughout the book. The poems of Girly Man may be oblique, satiric, or elusive, but their sense is emphatic. Indeed, Bernstein's poetry performsits ideas so that they can be experienced as well as understood. 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.
- About The Author
- Charles Bernstein is the author of many books, including the poetry collections Topsy-Turvy and Near/Miss and the critical works The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies and Pitch of Poetry, which are published by the University of Chicago Press. He won the 2019 Bollingen Prize and the 2025 America Award for lifetime contribution to international writing. Bernstein is distinguished professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature emeritus at University of Pennsylvania. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780226044064
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press, (22 September 2006)
- Number of Pages
- 186
- Weight
- 367 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 140 x 23 mm
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