{"product_id":"the-kinds-of-poetry-i-want-essays-comedies-9780226836096","title":"The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays \u0026 Comedies","description":"\u003cb\u003eA celebration of the radical poetics of invention from Charles Bernstein.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For more than four decades, Charles Bernstein has been at the forefront of experimental poetry, ever reaching for a radical poetics that defies schools, periods, and cultural institutions. \u003ci\u003eThe Kinds of Poetry I Want\u003c\/i\u003e is a celebration of invention and includes not only poetry but also essays on aesthetics and literary studies, interviews with other poets, autobiographical sketches, and more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At once a dialogic novel, long poem, and grand opera, \u003ci\u003e The Kinds of Poetry I Want \u003c\/i\u003earrives amid renewed attacks on humanistic expression. In his polemical, humorous style, Bernstein faces these challenges head-on and affirms the enduring vitality and attraction of poetry, poetics, and literary criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Bernstein\u003c\/b\u003e, winner of the 2019 Bollingen Prize, is the Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of many books, most recently two volumes of poetry, \u003ci\u003eNear\/Miss\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Topsy-Turvy\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50902422323474,"sku":"9780226836096","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6563e810-1011-45a6-bc31-0924c05ad6bf.jpg?v=1738454919","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-kinds-of-poetry-i-want-essays-comedies-9780226836096","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}