Publisher's Synopsis
"My Blue Hawaii"Every queen loves a lobsterwith the nerve to kill timesince it's easy to be sure in a bistrowhere more than dogs are turned awayYour mother had the particlebut key words are too brittleto warp the probity of a lifetimefor a perp walk through a wafer fabIf you don't pay attentionto the little thingsthe big things will fall downIt's only a pay per view moonand 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.
