The "psychic imperatives" of post-war poetry
 

Bernstein 202: "Poetry after the war has its psychic imperatives: to dismantle the grammar of control and the syntax of command. This is one way to understand the political content of its form."

> from Charles Bernstein's A Poetics (1992)

> tagged with #politics, #form, #control, #poetics, #poetry, #language

> created Apr 5, 2025 at 12:36:01 PM


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