Private Enigmas and Critical Functions, with Particular Reference to the Writing of Charles Bernstein

What is one to say of such nonsense? I observe that each stanza is dominated by (introduced by) a distinct literary allusion: Byron is echoed in the first line, D. G. Rossetti in line five, and some nursery doggerel in line nine.2 But the absence of an integrating element among these three simple allusions is an index of the text's chaos (as is the poem's title, for that matter). The work is a travesty of meaning because it flaunts its own deliberate wreckage of

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• Paratactics (Pataquerics) of the Ordinary

  Gerald L Bruns•boundary 2•2017

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