I Am Secretly an Important Man

By Deran Ludd and Steven "Jesse" Bernstein

A (posthumous) collection of prose from the nearly legendary writer, junkie, wordsmith, sometime Sub-Pop recording artist,a and inspiration to Kurt Cobain and countless others. "The work is deeply... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963859412
• ISBN13: 9780963859419
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Zero Hour
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 0.5" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic!!

I Am Secretly An Important Man, is one of my favorite books of poetry, stories..Jesse Burnstein is fantastic. I would say it is for the mature.

Not for those with a weak stomach

This is best book I have read in a long time. Bernstein's writing is gripping and vivid, and one of the most original things I've ever read.

The Poet Jacks Off The Throat to Bring This in Cupped Hands

"If you dare condemn my life, it will come after you with a sharpened rake!" said Steven Jesse Bernstein, the legendary dark sun shining in the steel-grey of a Seattle sky. (...) had come into his own a s a poet...all he had to do was wield a pen and scrawl what was already there, gushing out so fast he had to catch it all in his hands or it would be lost forever...(...) ...Read the works of a man from the very streets you come from, (...) ...You need take this Writer's works with you as a close and trusted companion, both Poetry and Prose, it's more than Lost than anything the Lost generation made out with like bandits; more Beat than anything the Beats as its got a modernized Rhythmic Bass back-beat to it, all the more akin to old Blues than Jazz, and the only generation is the Generation X=conmmunicated, where the only "alternative" is drugs or death, otherwise the compromise of a scared hypocrite wanting to repeat the secure sins of those who are of an entirely different breed of poets altogether...no, Bernstein knew what he was; and even more than that he focused on what he had become (...)(...)

Brilliant. I can't say enough.

Bernstein's work screams TRUTH

A good introduction to Bernstein's shorter work.

This collection of previously unpublished works by Steven J. Bernstein provides readers with an over-view of his multiple narrative voices, styles, and themes. Fans of Bernstein's spoken-word performances may find this collection more accessible than his longer works (The Wraith and Hermoine). Furthermore, Grant Alden's introduction to this collection positions Bernstein's shorter prose in relation to his other fiction, musical work, and biographical/fictional life. While no one volume could capture the Post-Beat deconstruction of form, the self-depricating satire and fluid hallucinations, the thoughts of a man as they turn upon and brutally lascerate his own bound-and-gagged self, this collection of Bernstein's prose gives readers glimpses of his rage, his humiliation, and his annihilation.