ISLETS/IRRITATIONS
by Charles Bernstein
In Islets/Irritations Bernstein relentlessly explores the nature of...language, comprehension, communication...This is serious writing that demands close reading.
Islets/Irritations...seems more a field of possibilities than a book of poems, a language whose vocabulary ranges from a technical jargon to TV GUIDE synopses to truncated letters addressed to former co-workers...Few writers ever achieve as rich a combination of image and statement as Bernstein does. It is a dazzling kaleidoscope...
– Steve Roberts, Poetics Journal