Poetry. In the poems of CONTROLLING INTERESTS Bernstein continually reveals his desire for the concomitance of the individual and the world, of all language and experience . This book is one of the most original and imaginative in American lyric verse–Douglas Messerli. Bernstein presents the reader with a world in which the articulation of an individual language is all but prevented by the official discourses that bombard the consciousness from all sides . He [is] on to something important–Marjorie Perloff. It is writing of absolute necessity, demanding not to be appreciated, but understood–Ron Silliman.