Republics of reality : 1975-1995 / Charles Bernstein.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Bernstein, Charles, 1950-

Series:

• Sun & Moon classics

Language:

English

Physical Description:

361 pages ; 19 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Sun & Moon Press, 2000.

Contents:

• Parsing (1976) 11
• I Sentences 13
• II Parsing 33
• Space and Poetry 59
• Roseland 62
• Shade (1978) 69
• Poem 71
• Ballet Russe 75
• "Of course ..." 77
• St. McC. 83
• For
• 87
• "It's up up" 108
• #23 109
• The Bean Field 111
• "is like a" 115
• Kiff-Kiff 117
• "Take then, these ..." 119
• Soul Under 120
• "of a sort" 126
• Nudge 128
• Dodgem 133
• Long Trails of Cars Returning from the Beach 136
• Poefic Justice (1979) 143
• Palukaville 145
• Lo Disfruto 148
• "Likening then ..." 153
• eLecTrIc 154
• Azoot D'Puund 161
• "The elephant appears ..." 163
• "Out of This Inside" 165
• Hotel Empire 170
• Lift Off 174
• Appropriation 176
• Faculty Politics 177
• The Taste Is What Counts 179
• Senses of Responsibility (1979) 187
• As If the Trees by Their Very Roots Had Hold of Us 189
• Loose Shoes 191
• Resistance 196
• Umbre 200
• To Which I Never Wanted 203
• Senses of Responsibility 206
• The Occurrence of Tune (1981) 211
• Stigma (1981) 233
• March 235
• Some Nights 236
• September 238
• May 240
• Stove's Out 242
• Type 243
• April 246
• New Year's 248
• December 249
• Bought Off 251
• Stigma 252
• Resistance (1983) 253
• Consideration 255
• But Boxes Both Boats, Growing Tireder as the Day Amasses 257
• Dunvegan 258
• Playing with a Full Deck 259
• Fever of Case 261
• The Sheds of Our Webs 262
• If There Were a God She Wouldn't Expect Us to Believe in Her 263
• Misty 266
• Forefright 267
• Bulge 268
• The Land and Its People 270
• Tense 273
• Stunment 274
• Air Shaft 276
• You 277
• Forensic Gastronomy 278
• Ambient Detonation 281
• Idiopathic Pathogenesis 283
• The Absent Father in "Dumbo" (1990) 285
• I'll Call When I Get There 287
• Cumulative Erasure 288
• Internal Loss Control 289
• Plausibly Deniable Link 290
• Prehensible Privilege 291
• Catabolism 293
• The Critic's Chair 295
• Soapy Water 296
• Stumps 298
• Hard Feelings 299
• Reperfusion 300
• Damage Control 302
• The Vanishing of Aporia 304
• Beginning with Lines Torn from Irby 305
• External Market Constraints 306
• Autonomy Is Jeopardy 307
• Emma 308
• At the Reading 309
• Broadway 310
• Railroad Street 311
• The Absent Father in Dumbo 313
• At the Reading (2) 314
• Lobby 315
• Trill 316
• Shell 317
• Butcher Boys 319
• August 321
• The Ecology of Freon 322
• Residual Rubbernecking (1995) 323
• Mao Tse Tung Wore Khakis 325
• [Untitled] 326
• Fugitive Desperation 327
• Liftjar Agate 328
• No Tieing Up 329
• Poem 330
• "Nickey, Turn Off the Lights" 331
• Buffalo Nights 332
• Power Walking 333
• After Campion 335
• All the Tea in China 336
• Almost There 337
• Not Bad Once You're In 338
• Wading for What 339
• At the Reading (3) 340
• Techniques of the Observed 342
• Mall at Night 343
• Under the Pink Tent 344
• "Get Real" 345
• Palinode 346
• Social Pork 347
• Sunset Sail 348
• Swelled by Certainty 349
• The Iron Ring and the Ecstasy 350
• Custom Blinds 351
• Revolutionary Poem 352
• Pinky Swear 353
• Are You Being Sarcastic? 354
• The Ache of the Archivist 355
• Residual Rubbernecking 356
• The Dog Is Dead 357
• Hard Copy 358
• Have Pen, Will Travel 359
• Rivulets of the Dead Jew 360
• Edlin 361.

Notes:

• Poems.
• "Reprints eight previously published books ... The ninth section, Residual rubbernecking, appears here for the first time in book form"--T.p. verso.

ISBN:

1557133042

OCLC:

44047180