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...Runa Bandyopadhyay Abstract Charles Bernstein's pataquericalism is not just a poetics but a philosophy of life, a leftist way to wrench freedom from authority to recognize the actual face of reality that toggles us with hope and despair, to explore hitherto undreamed regions of the mind in order...

... . Translated by Anscombe G. E. M. . New York : Macmillan . Paratactics (Pataquerics) of the Ordinary: The Course of the Comic in Charles Bernstein’s Poetry Gerald L. Bruns       I have done everything I possibly...

..., this pataquerical imperative has become Western poetry's activist center. The macadamized verse of conventional poetry (MVCP) proliferates like lawn ornaments in a museum of suburban life. In such works, coherence and expression metamorphose into a Coke and Pepsi mélange , concocted for sipping on a smoky, hot...

... the designation “avant-garde” as well as “experimental.” In their place, I have come up with a series of sometimes comic terms for the radical, nonconventional, or inventive: com(op)positionality, dysraphism, the pataquerical, ideoloectical, echopoetics, social formalism. “Avant-garde” suggests closed ranks...

... genre distinctions, though one genre is not subservient to the other in my queer practice” (231). In a stunning essay, serious as it is comical, Bernstein recently defined his poetics as a pataqueric : queer, pataphysical, and inquisitive in spirit. An aesthetic foundation, discordance is also...

... , NYRB , the New Yorker —but as pataquerulous. (By fixed I mean both what they do to pets and to sports games.) But circling back to bunkers and Bohemians, I am also wary of the reaction formation, circling the wagons, since pataquerics charts a history of specific and often incommensurable reactions...

... “The Pataquerical Imagination” offering it as “Anesthetic”; or the manifestos of Near/Miss . Bernstein considers his poems impermeable, opaque because of artifice and digression, in opposition to the absorptive ones, which generate in his opinion a hypnotic state thanks to realism, transparency, and continuity...

..., misfit and marginal—the whole pataquerical crew—are the shock troupes of the avant-­garde, an elite force specializing in uncon- 10. Scalapino’s stinging original response to Silliman was called “What Person?” (1999) and is collected as “Disbelief” in Scalapino 2011 (220–21). 11. See Nielson 1988...