All the Whiskey in Heaven brings together Charles Bernstein’s best work from the past thirty years, an astonishing assortment of different types of poems. Yet despite the distinctive differences from poem to poem, Bernstein’s characteristic explorations of how language both limits and liberates thought are present throughout. Modulating the comic and the dark structural invention with buoyant soundplay, these challenging works give way to poems of lyric excess and striking emotional range. This is poetry for poetry’s sake, as formally radical as it is socially engaged, providing equal measures of aesthetic pleasure, hilarity, and philosophical reflection. Long considered one of America’s most inventive and influential contemporary poets, Bernstein reveals himself to be both trickster and charmer.
- ISBN10 1907773304
- ISBN13 9781907773303
- Publish Date 15 October 2012 (first published 2 March 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Salt Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English
- URL http://saltpublishing.com/products/all-the-whiskey-in-heaven-9781907773303