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Series: Adventures in Poetry
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ISBN13: 9780976161288
Publisher: Adventures In Poetry
Published: Oct 1 2009
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
My Blue Hawaii
Every queen loves a lobster
with the nerve to kill time
since it's easy to be sure in a bistro
where more than dogs are turned away
Your mother had the particle
but key words are too brittle
to warp the probity of a lifetime
for a perp walk through a wafer fab
If you don't pay attention
to the little things
the big things will fall down
It's only a pay per view moon
and slowness makes everything royal
Born and raised in New York City, Alan Bernheimer graduated in 1970 from Yale University, where he studied with New York poets Ted Berrigan, Peter Schjeldahl, and Bill Berkson. In 1976 he moved to San Francisco and spent time with other young writers such as Rae Armantrout, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, Kit Robinson, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten--a group who would soon become known as the San Francisco Language poets. Bernheimer also wrote and performed for Poets Theater and produced and hosted In the American Tree, a radio program of new writing by poets on KPFA. This collection includes recent work; brief selections from his first two books; the entirety of Billionesque (The Figures, 1999); and the play Particle Arms, which was produced by the San Francisco Poets Theater in the early '80s.
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