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Breaking Through

These excerpts are from a 50-minute interview with Charles Bernstein and Ian Probstein on Breaking Through, with W.J. O'Reilly, on eGarage.TV, June 17, 2011.


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From Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions

"The Difficult Poem" (excerpt)

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"Against National Poetry Month as Such" (excerpt)

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from All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems

"Verdi and Postmosdernism"


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Johnny Cake Hollow


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Khlebnikov's "Incantation by Laughter," with Ian Probstein reading the Russian

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These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2011 Charles Bernstein. Used with the permission of Charles Bernstein. Distributed by PennSound.