Bernstein 32: "Many nineteenth-century lyric poems involve a self-/absorbed address to a beloved, the gods, or the poet her/himself: an address that, because / it is not to the reader but to some presence / anterior or / interior to / the poem, induces readerly absorption / by creating an effect of overhearing in contrast to / confronting."
"Absorption can be broken / by any direct address / to the reader"
> from Charles Bernstein's A Poetics (1992)
> tagged with #poetry_craft_techniques
> created Feb 3, 2025 at 11:40:55 AM
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