All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems

All the Whiskey in Heaven brings together Charles Bernsteins best work from the past thirty years, an astonishing assortment of different types of poems. Yet despite the distinctive differences from poem to poem, Bernsteins characteristic explorations of how language both limits and liberates thought are present throughout. Modulating the comic and the dark structural invention with buoyant soundplay, these challenging works give way to poems of lyric excess and striking emotional range. This is poetry for poetrys sake, as formally radical as it is socially engaged, providing equal measures of aesthetic pleasure, hilarity, and philosophical reflection. Long considered one of Americas most inventive and influential contemporary poets, Bernstein reveals himself to be both trickster and charmer.