My Way: Speeches and Poems

by Charles Bernstein

Book Overview

"Verse is born free but everywhere in chains. It has been my project to rattle the chains." (from "The Revenge of the Poet-Critic")

In My Way, (in)famous language poet and critic Charles Bernstein deploys a wide variety of interlinked forms--speeches and poems, interviews and essays--to explore the place of poetry in American culture and in the university. Sometimes comic, sometimes dark, Bernstein's writing is irreverent but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226044106
• ISBN13: 9780226044101
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"