Words Fail Him: The Poetry of Charles Bernstein

by Jason Guriel Charles Bernstein. All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010. 300 pp. $26.00. ✥ In senior year of high school, my friend Tom discovered the works of Marilyn Manson and took up the vestments: hair dye, torn nylons, Doc Martens. He insisted I borrow his Heart of Darkness, his Darkness at Noon. (He preferred his fiction dimly lit.) We convened in Ms. B—’s creative writing class and toyed with... Read More