EPC/Bernstein Author Home Page

photo: Susan Bee

Charles Bernstein

CV with hyperlinked bibliography
(books, essays, reviews)

Bio
+ note for All the Whiskey in Heaven, autobiographical interview, DLB

PennSound (audio and video)
Commentary @Jacket2
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Poetry Foundation
Poets.Org
ModPo

UPCOMING Readings:
Sept, 29, 6pm, Morgan Library, NY, Lohf series: Tickets requited
Nov. 20, 5pm, Segue Series at Artists Space

Topsy-Turvy (University of Chicago Press, 2021) (link includes video launches, interviews, and reviews)

Charles Bernstein The Poetry of Idiomatic Insistence: a specail issue of boundary 2, ed. Paul Bove (Nov. 2021)
Doubletalking the Homphonic Sublime: Comedy, Appropriation, and the Sounds of One Hand Clapping (Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 2021), 80pp.
Echologs, after Virgil, with Richard Tuttle (Cambridge: Art and Letters, 2020)
The Language Letters: Selected 1970s Correspondence of Bruce Andrews, Ron Silliman, and Charles Bernstein, edited by Matthew Hofer and Michael Golston (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019)
Legend ( Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma, Steve McCaffery, and Ron Silliman): New edition, with new 5-way collaboration, ed. Matt Hofer and Michael Golston (University of New Mexico Press, 2020)
L=A=N=G=U=G=E, Bruce Andrews & Charles Bernbstein, eds.: Facsimile edition, ed. Matt Hofer and Michael Golston (University of New Mexico Press, 2020)
Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 2000)
•Salt Publishing, new digital editions; The Sophist and The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein

E-books:
free downloads of select Bernstein titles

RECENCIES (free online)
• Critical Inquiery: In the Moment: "Occular Truth and the Irreperable (Veil)"
•Talking at Radio Web MACBA, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, 90 minute radio program (2021)
•"Eventuality," Literry Activism
•Fence Portal: from "Where Here Were We," collaboraion with Norman Fischer
•"The Tugboat and the Quayle," Literary Activism, with video
•Videa reading: Enclave (intro by Rae Armantrout): YouTube & POG (intro by Charles Alexander): more recent videos at PennSound
•Tonya Foster, erica kaufman, and Tracie Morris discuss "There's a Hole in My Pocket" with Al Filries (ModPo): YouTube (2020)
•Tribute to Harry Crosby: mp4
• Retirement celebration: video, audio, book
• EPC Digital Edition of Artifice of Absorption
• Digital edition of "Asylum" (1974) with source text.
• James Shivers, Charles Bernstein / American Innovator –– More Numerous of: A Kinetic Approach (37 Blue Editions, digital edition, 2019).First publication of Shivers’s 2001 dissertation, with a new introduction by the author and foreword by Richard Deming. PDF

POEMS (mostly from Topsy-Turvy)

Critical Inquiry: "Covidity"
The Typescript: "Shelter in Place"
Chicago Review: "The Death of Sean Boney"
Paris Review: "Twelve-Year Horoscope"
Przekroj (Warsaw): "The Darkness He Called Night" with commentary by Julia Fiedorczuk
PN Review 247: "Procuring Poetry" (translation of Drummond)
Australian Book Review: "Karen Carpenter" (#411, May)
Big Other: "Cardio Theater," "Rime and Raison" from The Course (with Ted Greenwald)
"Test of Poetry": Five Translations: Jacket2
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INTERVIEWS
The Arts Section, on Ted Greenwald Collaboration, with two poems
Ian Probstein, interview on liberalism: Russian, English (Jan. 31, 2020)
Robert Wood, "Groucho and Me: an Interview with Robert Wood, "Los Angeles Review of Books Blog, July 4, 2019
Penn Gazette: an interview by Daniel Akst.
Penn School of Arts and Sciences OMNIA: Podcast — “You Can’t Hurt A Poem, And Other Lessons from Charles Bernstein”: full episode.

ESSAYS
"Poetry Month WIll Be a Little Late This Year," University of Chicago Blog (2020) & Yale video
On Whitman's Preface to Leaves of Grass in Every Atom: Reflections on Whitman at 200
"Poetic Citizenship and Negative Dialectics" in A-Line (2019)
"An Mosaic for Convergence" -- reboot of 1998 hypertext essay at EBR
"On Charles Reznikoff" Centre Litteraire, Foundation Royaumont (France, 1989); part of a two‑week French tour for "An Office on the Atlantic"; also presented at Poets House (New York, 1990) [Jacket2 post with audio and transcription with Pierre Alfeiri's translation.]

REVIEWS/Articles
Li Zhimin, Reflections of Charles Bernstein's Avant-garde Poetics on Basis of Pitch of Poetry," Foreign Language Studies 39:3, April, 2017 (Wuhan China): pdf
Feng Yi, "The Negative Economy of Nothingness in Charles Bernstein’s Poetics," International Comparative Literature, 2:2 (2019): pdf
Lauri Ramey, introduction to Frederick Hertzberg Bernstein interview. Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures 2:2 (December 2018): pdf
Penn Current on Near/Miss (Louisa Shepard), October 14, 2018
Feng YI, Bernstein's Echopoetics (with special attention of Recalculating and Pitch of Poetry), Chinese, Jianghan University Academic Journal, 34:4 (2018): PDF. See also Feng's 2019 article on her residency at Penn, written for Zhaohui’s Echopoetics translation.
Hazel Smith, "Experimental Confessionalism: The Personal Turn in American Post-conceptual Poetry," with special reference to the title poem in Recalculating, at Cordite Poetry Reivew #87 (2018)
Inez Okulska, “Douglas Robinson, Charles Bernstein, VERSATORIUM and Metonymic Repetition: Tropes as a Practical Tool for Translation Criticism” in Przekładaniec: A Journal of Translation Studies #34 English (Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Poland): pdf
Marjorie Perloff and Al Filreis discuss "Today Is the Last Day of Your Life ’til Now" (Recalculating), video for ModPo (2018); Al Filries and Laynie Browne
Leevi Lehto, "Against the idea of Poetry," Foreign Literary Studies, Wuhan, China, Vol. 29, No. 2 April 2007 (English tr. of Lehto’s preface to Runouden puolustus. Esseit ja runoja kahdelta vuosituhannelta): pdf.