CHARLES BERNSTEIN

http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/bernstein


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BOOKS

(excluding pamphlets )


ESSAYS

The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming Fall 2024)
Pitch of Poetry (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
My Way: Speeches and Poems (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999)
A Poetics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992)

Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984 (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986; rpt Northwestern University Press, 2001)


The Language Letters, (with Ron Silliman and Bruce Andrews). ed. Michael Golston and Matt Hofer (Univeristy of New Mexiso Press, 2019)
A Conversation with David Antin (New York: Granary Books, 2002)


POETRY

Topys-Turvy ((Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021)
The Course, with Ted Greenwald (New York: Roof Books, 2020)
Near/Miss (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018)
Pitch of Poetry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016)
Recalculating (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013)
All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)
Blind Witness
: Three American Operas (music by  Ben Yarmolinksy) (Queens, NY: Factory School, 2008)
Girly Man (University of Chicago Press, 2006)
Shadowtime (libretto for an opera with music by Brian Ferneyhough) (Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2005)
With Strings
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001)
Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 2000)

Dark City (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1994)

Rough Trades (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1991)

The Sophist (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1987; rpt. Cambridge, UK: Salt Publishing, 2004)

Islets/Irritations (New York: Jordan Davies, 1983; rpt. New York: Roof Books, 1992)

Controlling Interests (New York: Roof Books, 1980)
(ebook via Amazon)
Legend, with Bruce Andrews, Steve McCaffery, Ron Silliman, Ray DiPalma (New York: L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E/Segue, 1980)

Poetic Justice (Baltimore: Pod Books, 1979)

Shade (College Park, MD: Sun & Moon Press, 1978)

Parsing (New York: Asylum's Press, 1976)

Asylums (New York: Asylum's Press, 1975)


Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End: Poems of Artificial Intellgence, with Davide Balula,(Nero Editions, 2023): 2023
Legend with Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma, Steve McCaffery, and Ron Silliman (L=A=N=G=U=A-G=E / Segue, 1980)
New edition, with new 5-way collaboration, ed. Matt Hofer and Michael Golston (University of New Mexico Press, 2020)
 


EDITOR

PennSound (with Al Filreis)
Electronic Poetry Center (with founder Loss Pequeño Glazier)


OPERA and MUSIC THEATER

Breathtails for Anne LeBaron (2009-2011)
Shadowtime -- libretto for an opera with composer Brian Ferneyhough in/aroundWalter Benjamin; commissioned by the Munich Bienalle for May 2004 premiere and subsequent performance at the Fesitval d'Automme in Paris, and the Lincoln Center Festival in New York. CD from NMC (2006)
Blind Witness News -- libretto for an opera with composer Ben Yarmolinsky: American Opera Projects, Blue Door Studios (NY), December 3-4, 1990.
The Subject -- libretto for an opera with Yarmolinsky, excerpts performed at "Friends & Enemies of Music", Greenwich House, NY, Nov. 1991 & Feb. 1992; full reading Feb. 1992
The Lenny Paschen Show -- libretto for an opera with composer Ben Yarmolinsky American Opera Projects, Blue Door Studios (NY), Nov. 1992
Cafe Buffe -- libretto commissioned for composer Dean Drummond and New Band Tour
; first performed in 2010 at Montclair State University.

Libretti
Blind Witness: Three American Operas (Queens, NY: Factory School, 2008)
Shadowtime (Los Angeles, Green Integer, 2005)


TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania (2003 - 2019)

SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus,; David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters, Department of English, State University of New York at Buffalo; Director, Poetics Program; Associate Member, Program in Comparative Literature (1990-2003 )

Bain-Swiggett Visiting Professor of Poetry, Princeton University (Fall 2011)
Visiting Professor, Department of English, Columbia Univeristy (2002)
Visiting Professor, Graduate Writing Program, City College of the City of New York, CUNY (1998)
Lecturer, Creative Writing Program, Princeton University (1989, 1990)
Visiting Professor, Department of English, Queens College of the City University of New York (1988)
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego (1987)



COLLABORATIONS (select)


PRIZES, FELLOWSHIPS, MEMBERSHIP AND HONORS

Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2006 - )
Bollingen Prize for American Poetry (2019): lifetime achievement and Near/Miss

11th Annual ‘T’ Space Poetry Award (Rhinebeck, NY), 2023
Janus Pannonious Grand Prize for Poetry
 (2015)
The Beltran Family Award for Innovative Teaching & Mentoring at the Kelly Writers House (University of Pennsylvania) (2018-19)

Münster Prize for International Poetry (2015)
Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, University of Pennsylvania (2009)
Dean’s Award for Innovation in Teaching, University of Pennsylvania (2005)
State University of New York Distinguished Professor (2002)
Roy Harvey Pearce/Archive for New Poetry Prize of the University of California, San Diego; for lifetime contribution to poetry and scholarship (1999)
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (1995 and 1990)
University of Auckland Foundation Fellowship (1986)
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1985)
National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship (1980)
William Lyon McKenzie King Fellow at Simon Fraser University (1973)
ASCAPLUS Award (concert division): awarded annually each year from 1993 to 2020

Finalist, Lenore Marshall / Nation prize best book of the year, Republics of Reality (Academy of American Poetry, 2000)
Finalist, Foreword Reviews 2001 poetry Book of the Year, With Strings

Phi Beta Kappa (of Alpha) (1972)

HONORARY DEGREES (honoris causa)
M.A., University of Pennsylvania (2004)
Litt.D., Ohio Wesleyan University (2022)
 


SCHOOLS

A.B., Harvard College [Philosophy concentration](1968-1972)
Bronx High School of Science (1964-1968)


PERSONAL

Date of Birth: April 4, 1950
Married to Susan Bee (Laufer)
Children: Emma (1985-2008) and Felix (b. 1992)