SOURCE: A review of Content's Dream, in Southern Humanities Review, Vol. 21, No. 3, Summer, 1987, pp. 283-84.

In the following review of Content's Dream, Sloan commends Bernstein's defense of Language poetry and his observations concerning film, though finds his critiques of non-Language poets disappointing and his assorted minor pieces and transcriptions self-indulgent.

In recent years the work of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writers, a movement in late-postmodern American literature, has received increasing critical attention. Charles Bernstein is the east coast spokesman and one of the original founders of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, and the publication of his Content’s Dream marks the addition of another important document to the growing L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E canon. The book is panoramic in its cultural concerns and expands considerably on the theoretical statements made in The L=A=N=G...