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More Noise Please!
BernsteinŐs second posthumous book, More Noise, Please!, the long-awaited collection of poems from Left Bank Press, is in every sense a lovely book. Some of Bernstein's most beautiful work is here made public for the first time to balance the better known poems of despair or gritty endurance, including all those recorded on the album PRISON. For this volume, Leslie Fried, Bernstein's widow and literary executor, has released love poems which she had long desired to keep as her private property. Her courage and generosity in this regard are exemplary. Her brief introduction, a painfully honest account of her struggle to set aside grief and possessiveness to fulfill her duty as executor, should be required reading for anyone in her position. Because of the inclusion of the love poems, tender hopeful poems like She Comes and Goes now take their rightful place beside the songs of isolation or suicide, such as The Man Upstairs and Mr. Charlie. The poem More Noise, Please! is so well-known locally that the title has gone into the vernacular, even being used as a name for a new music event a year or two ago. An ode to urban sonic pollution, it proposes that Maybe we are the kind of people/ who need to have/ what we don't want/ just to get along,/ to do the basic things. Publisher: Left Bank Books Other books in Poetry
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