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Extremely difficult poems that deserve to be read out loud to fully appreciate the rhythm and sound of the poems. The last 1/3rd of the book was scattered with some much weaker poems and lyrics but has one of the best lines in poetry. "war is surrealism without art." The language isn't the most beautiful and is littered with many abstract phrases that detract from the concrete but all in all there are some quite solid pieces.
Here's a link to my review at New Pages:http://www.newpages.com/bookreviews/2...
Last spring Charles put himself on recordthat he didn't like crafts. We sooncame to understand his feelingswhen we worked with him. Charlieis not strong in manual dexterity. (Thismay be part of a mixed dominance situation Mrs. B. and I discussed in relation to tying shoes.) Fortunately,what he lacks in developed skillshe makes up for inpatience, determination, and knowledge of what he wants asresults.
Thanks Brian, now I know your work much better as well.
I don't know enough about poetry to describe everything Bernstein is doing here, but I feel like he has a perfect grasp of acoustic space, of rhythm, of phonetic logic that is hard to describe and akin to that of a rap producer or a folk singer songwriter. When I read Bernstein's poetry, I feel like I am falling into his sound-state, surrounded on all sides by the acoustics he is creating. That he manages to be funny, wry, clever and create these cogent essayistic arguments about aesthetics and
THE KIWI BIRD IN THE KIWI TREEI want no paradise only to bedrenched in the downpour of words, fecundwith topicality. Fundament be-yond relation, less ‘real’ than made, as armssurround a baby’s gurgling: encir-cling mesh pronounces its promise (not barsthat pinion, notes that ply). The tailor tellsof other tolls, the seam that binds, the trim,the waste. & having spelled these names, move onto toys or talcums, skates & scores. Onlythe imaginary is real –not trumpsbeclouding the mind’s acrobatic ve...
Mostly not my cup of tea. I was hoping it would be. Some of the poems are simply no-sense, to me; not nonsense in any useful way, but rather made up or jumbled words, or non-syntactical "sentences". Others, especially in the later poems, are "sensible," but not especially clever--humor in a rather nerdy way, too "ivory tower" to be of much use.
interesting in the way that most poetry aspires to be
A wide variety of poems, in many different forms. The poems were a little too modern or my taste, but they are definitely worth looking at.
