The Language Book (Poetics of the New)

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Summary: B=O=R=I=N=G & P=R=E=T=E=N=T=I=O=U=S
Review: . . . and completely dishonest--these folks affect a vague anti-capitalist stance, but really. Charles Bernstein was the star of a commercial for the Yellow Pages broadcast during the Super Bowl. How much did you get for that, Chuck? Gave the money to the masses, did you? Ah, but his poetics of interference is busily subverting the established economic order! What arrogant, smirking, privileged garbage. If you fall for this crap, it's because you long to believe you're stupid and this grade-school nonsense is deep.

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Summary: Fascinating
Review: Bernstein is one of the great poets in the world today and this is a brilliant insight into the poetics of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E "school". If you have any serious interest in poetry and poetics, you should read this book.

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Summary: The English Language meets Cuisine Arte.
Review: If you like to see the English language --- the Queen's English, that is to say --- subjected to the most vicious of butcherings and prententious, pedantic doodeling, than I think this books will be right up your alley. I, however, prefer such masters of Her Majesty's language as Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak, Hobi Baba, ann Michael Hardt. Not.