E-Books →Girly Man

Composed of works of very different forms and moods-etchings from moments of acute crisis, comic excursions, formal excavations, confrontations with the cultural illogics of contemporary political consciousness-the poems work as an ensemble, each part contributing something necessary to an unrealizable and unrepresentable whole. Indeed, representation-and related claims to truth and moral certainty-is an active concern throughout the book. The poems of Girly Man may be oblique, satiric, or elusive, but their sense is emphatic. Indeed, Bernstein's poetry performsits ideas so that they can be experienced as well as understood.
A passionate defense of contingency, resistance, and multiplicity, Girly Man is a provocative and aesthetically challenging collection of radical verse from one of America's most controversial poets.