Charles Bernstein

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Interviews:

• Interview with Ian Probstein, Arcade (2015)
  
• Interview with Natalia Federova in Cosmanuts Avenue, 1:1 (2014)
• Journal of Poetics Research, with Penelope Galey-Sacks: "Poetry’s club-foot: process, faktura, intensification" (2014)
• Labor Day interview (2013) with Fran Guan (Prelude).
• Sibila interview (includes English)
• Volta "offkey" interivew (2013), Portuguese tr.
• Wolf interview with Stephen Ross (2013)
• On voice and performance, with Enzo Minarelli, Cordite (2013)
• "Experimental Poetries in the 21st Century" by Larissa Shmailo at Drunken Boat (2012)
• Poetry Societry of America on poetry and politics: March 2012
• PoetsArtists interview with Grace Cavalieri , Dec. 20011
• Brooklyn Rail interview on Attack of the Difficult Poems with Adam Fitzgerald (June, 2011)
• Manuel Brito interview on editing (2011)
• Harriet (Poetry Foundation) blog interview with Thom Donovan: part one, part two (2010)
• FSG blog interview with Alan Gilbert (2010)
• Bomb interview with Jay Sanders  (Spring 2010)
• Chicago Reader interview with Daniel Benjamin (2010)
• 12 or 20 Questions from Rob McLennan (2009)
• Yubraj Aryal interview from The Humanities at Work: International Exchange of Ideas in Aesthetics, Philosophy and Literature (2008)
• Aryanil Mukherjee Interview in Kaurab Online (2007)
• Nie Zhenzhao interview (excerpt) (2007)
  
• A brief interview with Ploughshares (2006)
• Romana Freschi inteview, Buenos Aires, June 2005 (Plebella/Green Integer Review; rpt Healing Matrix (2006)
• "Setting the World on Fire," interview with Leonard Schwartz (March 15, 2004), Jacket 29 (2006)
• Eric Denut Inteview (mostly on Shadowtime), from Argonist Online (2005); also in All About Jewish Theater
• Leevi Lehto, Frederik Hertzberg, Bernstein, “On The Origins, State, and Future Perspectives of Finno-Saxon” (2004).  The Conversant (2012)
• Chicago Postmodern Poetry interview (April 2004)
• Payam Fotouhipour interview, from Readings #1 (2004)
• A Conversation with Henry Hills (from 1985), Midway #1 (2006)(interview from Spring, 2003)
• Marjorie Perloff interview and conversation, from Fulcrum, no. 2, 2003 via Ubu.
• James Shivers interview on collaboration with Susan Bee, Artkrush (2002)
• Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Charles Bernstein: A Dialogue (from Conjunctions 35, 2000)
• ReadMe interview with Bradford Senning (1999)
• Seminary Co-op Books (Front Table) Interview (February 1999)
• Interview with Dana Luther on poetry readings and Close Listening (from Writers-on-Line)
• Leevi Lehto Interview, from Helsingin Sanomat, January 17, 1993 -- English and Finnish
• Charles Bernstein in conversation with Richard Foreman (TDR, 1992) at Ubu.Com
• Interview by Ted Greenwald, Poetry Project Newsletter, April/May 1988
• http://www.jstor.org/stable/303637
• 1983 interview also with Douglas Messeril by Nina Zivancevic (text and audio)

About the Author:

The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein, ed. William Allegrezza (2012)
Tom Beckett, ed., "Charles Bernstein Issue", The Difficulties (1982)

a more comprehensive list of critical responses, with links, on full CV

• Reviews of All the Whiskey in Heaven
• Reviews of Girly Man
• Isabelle Alfandary on "Recantorium," Revue Française d'Etude Américaine, No. 121, Fall 2009 (in French): pdf
• Tim Allen on With Strings in Stride Magazine (2003)
• Hélène Aji, “Writing (as) (and) thinking”: Charles Bernstein’s Work “in” Language in Études Anglaises LIX 3 (July-September 2006)
• Christopher Beach, "Reappropriation and Resistance: Charles Bernstein, Language Poetry, and Poetic Tradition", concluding chapter of ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992)
• Joel Bettridge, "Shadowtime and Faithful Interpretation," Textual Practice (2008)
• Javant Biarujia: Charles Bernstein: Creating a ive disturbance
  (originally published in Boxkite 2004)
• Carloline Bergvall on A Conversation with David Antin in Jacket 22 (2004)
• Charlie Bertsche, "Bitter Greens: Walter Benjamin Goes to the Opera" — Tikkun (July/August 2006)
• Eniko Bollobas, "Imploded Sentences: On Charles Bernstein's Poetic Attentions," in Arcade (2015)
• Régis Bonvicino, Preface to War Stories (his Portuguese translation of selected works) (2008) [also at "web log"]
• Colin Browne, "Benjamin’s Angels, or Why We Sing the Lamentations" —Jacket (Oct. 2005)
• Manuel Brito, “Interactions Of Practice And Theory In Charles Bernstein’s “Artifice Of Absorption:Trancendentalist Accessibility and Challenge,” Graat on-line issue 8, August 2010
• Gearld Bruns, What Are Poets For?: Studies in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics: "Should Poetry Be Ethical or Otherwise?", University of Iowa Pres (2011): pdf
  
• Garrett Caples, "A Consumer Guide to Charles Bernstein", Tin Lustre Mobile (web; 2003)
• Antoine Cazé on My Way (Sping 2000, Sources; in French)
• Richard Deming, on the libretto — Rain Taxi, (Spring 2006)
• Thomas Devaney, Girly Man, Philadelphia Inquirer: (2/18/07)
• Joe Francis Doerr, "Poet as Librettist: Words for Music by Lang-Po and New Formalist Poets" — Notre Dame Review #22 (Summer 2006)
• Dubravka Djuric on Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word, from Samizdat #4 (1999)
• Andrew Epstein, "Verse vs. Verse" (Lingua Franca, Sept. 2000: 45-54)
• Logan Esdale, “Charles Bernstein” entry in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry (2005)
• Jeffrey Gray, James McCorkel and Mary Balkun. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2006. 110-114.
  
• Matthew Menachem Feuer, “On Theatricality” and Doing Poetic Stand-Up," Schlemiel Theory (May 16, 2014)
• Thomas Fink on With Strings in the Verse issue of Jacket (2002)
• Thomas Fink on Girly Man, Verse: (Feb. 2007)
• Al Filreis, "Anti-ordination in the visualization of the poem's sound Bernstein chants 73 through 75 in '1 to 100' (1969)" in Jacket 2 (Feb. 2014)
• William Gillespie, "Is Charles Bernstein a Political Poet?", ebr 11 (c. 2000)
• Alan Golding, "Charles Bernstein and Professional Avant-Gardism" (Talisman, 36/37, 2008/2009)
• Timothy Gray on My Way in American Literature (2000)
• Ursula Göricke, Poetry as Epistemological Inquiry: Reading Bernstein Reading, Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule, Aachen, Germany [PhD dissertation, pdf] (2003)
• Brian Henry on My Way in L A G N I A P P E (1999)
• Robert Hicks on Girly Man, Kansas City Star: (12/31/06)
• Yunte Huang on With Strings and Marjorie Perloff's 21st Century Modernism in Boston Review (2002)
• David Ignatius on Marat/Sade (Harvard Crimson, 1970)
  note typographical error in first line: Paradise Note should be Paradise Now (the Living Theater piece)
• Pierre Joris on Rough Trades in American Book Review (1993)
• Michael Kelleher, "Charles Bernstein in the 20th Century, A Brief Revue of Poetic Values" in The Transcendental Friend (1999)
• David Kaufman, "Rattling the Chains of American Poetry : Charles Bernstein’s unique blend of polemic, parody and just plain invention." Forward: (12/21/06)
• David Kaufmann, "Two or Three Things I Know About Charles Bernstein" in Shofar 32:2 (2014)
  
• Erica Kaufman intro, Segue/BPC intro 4/29/07.
• Allan Kozinn on Blind Witness News (The New York Times, 1990)
• Hank Lazer, "Radical Collage": The Sophist & Artifice of Absorption, The Nation (1988)
• Hank Lazer on Dark City in American Poetry Review (1995)
• 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)
• Leevi Lehto, "In the Un-American Tree; The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetries and Their Aftermath, with a Special Reference to Charles Bernstein Translated," presented at the Wuhan American poetry conference (2007)
• Douglas Messerli, "Rhythms of the `Language' Poets", MLA Annual Convention, New York (1982) & on Green Integer blog (2008)
• Douglas Messerli, "Wordscape Artists" (on Charles Bernstein, Bruce Andrews, and Bob Perelman) Village Voice (1982)
  
• Jerome McGann: "Contemporary Poetry, Alternate Routes," Critical Inquiry (1987); rpt. in Politics and Poetic Value, ed. Robert von Hallberg (University of Chicago Press, 1987); rpt. in McGann's Social Values and Poetic Acts, Harvard University Press (1988)
• Jerome McGann: "Private Enigmas and Crtical Functions, with Special Reference to the Writing of Charles Bernstein," New Literary History (1991) (pdf file)
  
• Jerome McGann, "From Site to Shenandoah" (pdf)
• Kevin McGuirk, "'Rough Trades': Charles Bernstein and the Currency of Poetry" in Canadian Review of American Studies (1997)
• Douglas Messerli on Controlling Interests(from Paper Air, 1982)
• Douglas Messerli, "The Possibility of Rectitude" -- on Let's Just Say (2005)
• Ange Mlinko & David Yezzi, Girly Man, in Poetry Magazine (May 2007)
• Stefan Mönke, "Charles Bernstein’s Response to the Postmodern Condition," University of Coimbra (Portugal) May, 2011, master's thesis by : pdf
• Allen Mozek, on Republics of Reality at For the Birds blog (Dec. 1, 2009)
• Allen Mozak on Girly Man (For the Birds, Dec. 2009)
• Tenney Nathanson "Collage and pulverization in contemporary American poetry: Charles Bernstein's Controlling Interests" (Contemporary Literarture, 1992)
• Tenney Nathanson on Controlling Interests (2004)
• Tim Peterson, "Either You're With Us and Against Us: Charles Bernstein's Girly Man, 9-11, and the Brechtian Figure of the Reader," EBR (2008
• Tim Peterson on Night A.I.R. with Bernstein/Bee & Perelman/Shaw (2006)
• Tim Peterson on Susan Bee & Charles Bernstein image/text talk at the Analagous Series (2004)
• Robert Pinsky's "Poet's Choice" on Girly Man in The Washinton Post: (1/28/07)
• Ian Prostein, "Of Time and the Line," in Arcade (2015)
• Nate Pritts on Parsing in Puella Mea Pulp #1 (2008)
• R.D. Pohl on Girly Man in Buffalo News(2006) l 10/13/06
• R. D. Pohl article and interview in Buffalo News (2003)
• Patrick Pritchett on Republics of Reality in Rain Taxi (2000)
• Paul Quinn on My Way and Log Rhythms in TLS (1999)
• Paul Quinn on Republics of Reality in PN Review (2000)
• Steve Roberts, "Reading Eye Lets", Poetics Journal (1983)
• Connie Robbins on Girly Man in Talisman (2007)
• Michelle Strizever on Reading Red at Smithsonian Library blog (2012)
• Susan Schultz on A Poetics in PMC (1992)
• Susan Schultz on Republics of Reality in Verse (18:2&3, 2001)
• Susan Schultz, "Of Time and Charles Bernstein's Lines: A Poetics of Fashion Statements" in Jacket (2001)
• Ron Silliman, Introduction to the Salt reprint of The Sophist
• Ron Silliman on World on Fire; and also on two poems from Let's Just Say: Silliman on "In Particular" and Silliman on "Thank You for Saying Thank You" (2003-4)
• Brian Kim Stefans on My Way(1999), Republics of Reality(2000), and With Strings(2002)
• Brian Kim Stefans intro at UCLA, May 2011
• Todd Switt on Eyewear
• Henry Sussman, "Prolegomena to any Present and Future Language Poetry," MLN (2003)
• Gordon Tapper , Girly Man, Brooklyn Rail: (March 2007)
• Keith Tuuma on Close Listening in Modernism/Modernity(1999)
• Geoff Ward on My Way in Boston Review (1999)
• William Watkin, Girly Man, Blog (March 15, 2007)
• Boston Review: Three microreviews of Republics of Reality (2000)
• PW review of Girly Man (2006)
• Publishers Weekly and Buffalo News(R.D. Pohl) reviews of Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 (2000)
• PW and Booklist reviews of Dark City (1994)
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  Full set of reviews of Shadowtime
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  Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) entry by Loss Pequeño Glazier
  The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, entry by Logan Esdale (2005) (mirror)
  The Literary Enclyopedia, entry by Nerys Williams (2009)
  Poetry Foundation bio
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  Autobiographical Interview, with pictures, with Loss Pequeño Glazier (from My Way)
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  PoemTalk (2009) & ModPo (2014) on "In a Resteless World Like This Is"
  

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