The Sophist
by Bernstein, Charles; Silliman, RonEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-08-30
Publisher(s): Lightning Source Inc
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| The Parts | |
| The Apex | |
| The Com'nsABCDE | |
| How I Was Attila in a Past Life | |
| On the Occasion of his Return to Civility | |
| Five Pieces for Sound File | |
| Proposition (Octave)Parsings - from *E*The | |
| Semilla de Calabaza (Pumpkin Seed) | |
| White-Faced Bromeliads on 20 Hectares (An Iteration) | |
| XochimilcoMezclaMarLa Habana / MarO : L a H a b a n a | |
| Leaving Loss GlazierWindows 95 | |
| The FiguresOlT / Imbedded Object | |
| Their DLLsOne Server, One Tablet, and a Diskless Sun | |
| Direct ContactDel RioCache / CachT? | |
| To Achieve Excess, your Vocabulary needs to be at a Level Higher than that of your Competitors | |
| Icon Editing"There I Never went Looking for Extravagant Meanings"Balanchine's Words to Printed PassageScroll | |
| Gorton's G. & A±o Nuevo Laredo | |
| The Reed Heads"Wits Have Short Memories & Dunces None"The Lettrist | |
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Excerpts
Why I Am Not a Christian One holds these promises (holds to them) amidst the make-believe mayhem of another day each farther from that resolution in renouncing aspired to as cat its pawn. You always throw it down but you never pick it up. Everything everywhere circumscribed by its physical, which is to say habitual array, the necessity to order what is otherwise always possible. The frequent opportunities I have possessed of observing the thousand acts of amiability and kindness, feeling by conduct turned to expectation and ripened to remorse. You cannot suppose and cannot not to. The freight is slumberous friend to a commoded journey - nearly a smile or only a poor bred thing. Profits will never displace the value of this self-made masquerade.
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