Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute)
"Close Listeningpays homage to...the twentieth century poetries often ignored or overinterpreted, to theories not listened to, to strategies not employed, and makes public a social history, a canvas, a recording."--Washington Review"...it might very well be the most important book on poetry published in some years...Bernstein's collection provides analysis that should help us to think more about kinds of readings and the formal and social factors to be considered in writing about or discussing them."--Modernism/Modernity