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Bernstein's essay 'Reznikoff's Nearness' is a tour de force. A 'serial' essay of numbered sections a la Reznikoff's poems (or Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, which Bernstein cites), its form embodies and comments on its positions and concerns. And there's plenty more to like in this collection. From his late-90s perspective here, Bernstein's take on the internet and related technologies' promise for poetry is pretty darn prescient. The autobiographical interview is edifying too. Plu...
I am intermittently reading essays from this collection of essays whose performance signals a disturbance of form. Are they essays, poems, speeches? Bernstein builds a useful architecture that's as much an ongoing conversation about modern and contemporary poetics, as it is a rehabilitation and questioning of our seemingly inherited poetic epistemology. Writings of significance are "Robin On His Own," and "Close Listening." The book also includes a couple of engaging interviews, as well as some
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