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Pitch of Poetry Hardback - 2016 - 1st Edition

by Charles Bernstein

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Praised in recent years as a "calculating, improvisatory, essential poet" by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American literary theory. Pitch of Poetry is his irreverent guide to modernist and contemporary poetics.

Subjects range across Holocaust representation, Occupy Wall Street, and the figurative nature of abstract art. Detailed overviews of formally inventive work include essays on--or "pitches" for--a set of key poets, from Gertrude Stein and Robert Creeley to John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Larry Eigner, and Leslie Scalapino. Bernstein also reveals the formative ideas behind the magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. The final section, published here for the first time, is a sweeping work on the poetics of stigma, perversity, and disability that is rooted in the thinking of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Blake.

Pitch of Poetry makes an exhilarating case for what Bernstein calls echopoetics: a poetry of call and response, reason and imagination, disfiguration and refiguration.

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  • Title Pitch of Poetry
  • Author Charles Bernstein
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date 2016
  • ISBN 9780226331928 / 022633192X
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Poetry - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015026776
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.1

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Citations

  • Choice, 01/01/2017, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 03/01/2016, Page 97

About the author

Charles Bernstein is the Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is codirector of PennSound. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of many books, including, most recently, Recalculating, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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