{"product_id":"the-sophist-9781844710003","title":"The Sophist","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sophist\u003c\/em\u003e was first published by Sun \u0026amp; Moon Press in 1987 and has been unavailable for well over a decade. A pivotal book for Bernstein, \u003cem\u003eThe Sophist\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eMy Way\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWith Strings\u003c\/em\u003e. If sophism is the opposite of both philosophy and the lyric, then \u003cem\u003eThe Sophist\u003c\/em\u003e is model for a rhetorical poetry that interrogates truth in the name of reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Bernstein has reintroduced a spirit of polemic into the world of American poetry. In the exhausted atmosphere in which so much of our writing takes place, Charles Bernstein has battled long and hard to make both writers and readers aware of the implications embedded in each and every language act we partake of as citizens of this vast, troubled country.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Paul Auster * Why Write? *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBernstein’s is the most provocatively intelligent reaction to the general drift of mainstream poetry, and he is an indefatigable writer of essays and poems wherein the determinations of genre are largely superseded. In short, he has not only given brilliant instance of the confusions of contemporary social and political premises but has done so in remarkable constructs of their characteristic modes of statement, which are not simply parodic but rather reclamations, recyclings, of otherwise degraded material.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Robert Creeley * American Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Text, the Beloved? Bernstein’s \u003cem\u003eSophist\u003c\/em\u003e by Ron Silliman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Simply \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Voyage of Life \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFear and Trespass \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEntitlement \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOutrigger \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Years As Swatches \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Only Utopia Is in a Now \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Lines of Swinburne \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpecial Pleading \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMicmac Mall (Sunset at Inverness)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDysraphism \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBy Cuff \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHitch World \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLike DeCLAraTionS in a HymIE CEMetArY \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRomance \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI and the \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePafnucio Santo and the American Friend\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe order of …\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRenumberation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Rudder of Inexorability\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Last Puritan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcquiescence \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeign Body Sensation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTeam Bias \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSearchless Warrant \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmblyopia \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTotal Body Clearance \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProsthesis \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUse No Flukes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSafe Methods of Business \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy I Am Not a Christian \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Person Is Not an Entity Symbolic but the Divine Incarnate \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRose the Click for 23 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSurface Reflectance \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrain Side View \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Harbor of Illusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771555053911,"sku":"9781844710003","price":11.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781844710003.jpg?v=1758728254","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-sophist-9781844710003","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}