{"product_id":"with-strings-charles-bernstein-9780226044606","title":"With Strings","description":"A companion to the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eMy Way\u003c\/i\u003e, his 1999 montage of essays, conversations, and poems, \u003ci\u003eWith Strings\u003c\/i\u003e catapults Charles Bernstein into the future of American poetry. A compilation of sixty-nine poems in various forms and styles, dating mostly from the 1990s, \u003ci\u003eWith Strings\u003c\/i\u003e is his most buoyant collection to date. With its fractured nursery rhymes, distressed mottoes, runcible riddles, and inscrutable sayings, Bernstein takes us on a poetic trip that swerves from the comic to the political, from the whimsical to the elegiac. The whole presents a densely sounded echo chamber in which a range of themes, moods, and perceptions extend and reverberate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharles Bernstein is perhaps best known as one of the founders of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry movement of the 1970s. He remains one of America's liveliest advocates and practitioners of radically inventive poetry. The title of his new collection, \u003ci\u003eWith Strings\u003c\/i\u003e, suggests the lush arrangement of a musical work as well as the unacknowledged implications of our everyday agreements. Just as language binds us together with its associated meanings, \u003ci\u003eWith Strings\u003c\/i\u003e bounces against the ties that rend us apart as they fasten us together. From his samplings of everyday life, to his demented yet sonorous iambic beats, Bernstein has once again created a poetry of our time, for our time, and by our time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Bernstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226044602\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226044606\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.14w x 0.41d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/22\/2001 pg. 71","brand":"Charles Bernstein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47473778688255,"sku":"9780226044606","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bf47d1e4-0927-4372-8c0b-7e1332536089.jpg?v=1762312884","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/with-strings-charles-bernstein-9780226044606","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}