8. Alan Berhheimer, "20 Questions"

How many language poets does it take to change a lightbulb? To get to the other side. Here are twenty questions, without question marks, ranging from the trivial cultural cliché (lightbulbs, presidents saying "nucular") to the profound. I like the aphoristic mode, half-way between O'Hara's Fortune Cookies and Silliman's Chinese Notebook. On the other hand, what does this poem add to this tradition? More bulk or something substantively different? Give it a 7.

Bernheimer is another "familiar stranger" to me, like one of those people you see in the coffee shop but don't really know.