Girly Man

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Charles Bernstein is the Donald T. Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of more than twenty books, including My Way: Speeches and Poems and With Strings, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

LET'S JUST SAY

In Particular

3

(4)

Thank You for Saying Thank You

7

(3)

Let's Just Say

10

(3)

"every lake..."

13

(4)

SOME OF THESE DAZE

It's 8:23 in New York

17

(3)

Today is the next day of the rest of your life

20

(3)

Aftershock

23

(3)

Report from Liberty Street

26

(5)

Letter from New York

31

(6)

WORLD ON FIRE

Didn't We

37

(2)

The Folks Who Live on the Hill

39

(2)

One More for the Road

41

(1)

In a Restless World Like This Is

42

(1)

Ghost of a Chance

43

(1)

Choo Choo Ch'Boogie

44

(2)

Stranger in Paradise

46

(1)

Broken English

47

(2)

Lost in Drowned Bliss

49

(1)

Sunset at Quaquaversal Point

50

(2)

A Flame in Your Heart

52

(5)

WARRANT

Warrant

57

(4)

Fantasy on Nightmare on Elm Street Theme

61

(1)

"Cum ipse..."

62

(2)

He's So Heavy, He's My Sokal

64

(2)

Why I Don't Meditate

66

(1)

Questionnaire

67

(2)

Language, Truth, and Logic

69

(3)

from Canti Antichi

72

(1)

Slap Me Five, Cleo, Mark's History

73

(10)

IN PARTS

Reading Red

83

(8)

Pomegranates

91

(5)

In Parts

96

(10)

12²

106

(4)

Photo Opportunity

110

(7)

LIKENESS

Castor Oil

117

(1)

Shenandoah

118

(2)

Jacob's Ladder

120

(1)

Don't Get Me Wrong

121

(2)

Interim Standoff

123

(1)

Should We Let Patients Write Down Their Own Dreams?

124

(1)

Bridges Freeze Before Roads

125

(1)

Pocket in the Hole

126

(2)

Evening Sail with Prawns

128

(1)

Secrets of a Clear Hand

129

(2)

Rain Is Local

131

(1)

Set Free (Knot)

132

(1)

If You Lived Here You'd Be Home Now

133

(1)

The Warble of the Ammonia-Bellied Barkeep

134

(2)

"And if then..."

136

(1)

Comforting Thoughts

137

(2)

Further Color Notes

139

(1)

Likeness

140

(9)

GIRLY MAN

War Stories

149

(6)

There's Beauty in the Sound of the Rushing Brook as It Forks & Bends in the Moonlight

155

(2)

Sign Under Test

157

(7)

A Poem Is Not a Weapon

164

(1)

Emma's Nursery Rimes

165

(2)

Wherever Angels Go

167

(1)

Death Fugue (Echo)

168

(2)

The Beauty of Useless Things: A Kantian Tale

170

(1)

Self-Help

171

(4)

The Bricklayer's Arms

175

(4)

The Ballad of the Girly Man

179

(4)

Notes and Acknowledgments

183

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