The Sophist was first published by Sun & Moon Press in 1987 and has been unavailable for well over a decade. A pivotal book for Bernstein, The Sophist demonstrated his great range of subject matter, style, and genre. By contrasting wildly different approaches to poetry, Bernstein not only questions the intrinsic value of any given form but also provides a model for his later heterogeneous books, including My Way and With Strings. If sophism is the opposite of both philosophy and the lyric, then The Sophist is model for a rhetorical poetry that interrogates truth in the name of reason.
- ISBN10 0940650789
- ISBN13 9780940650787
- Publish Date 1 January 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Sun & Moon Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 179
- Language English