A companion to the critically acclaimed "My Way", his 1999 montage of essays, conversations and poems, "With Strings" catapults Charles Bernstein into the future of American poetry. A compilation of 69 poems in various forms and styles, dating mostly from the 1990s, "With Strings" is his most buoyan[...]
Charles Bernstein is our postmodern jester of American poesy, equal part surveyor of democratic vistas and scholar of avant-garde sensibilities. In a career spanning thirty-five years and forty books, he has challenged and provoked us with writing that is decidedly unafraid of the tensions between o[...]
Charles Bernstein's first full-length collection of new poems in seven years, "Recalculating" takes readers on a journey through the history and poetics of the decades since the end of the Cold War as seen through the lens of social and personal turbulence and tragedy. The collection's title, the no[...]
This collection is considered to be more than a work of criticism by the poet Charles Bernstein, it is a poetic intervention into criticism. "Artifice of Absorption", a key essay, is written in verse, and its structures and rhythms initiate the reader into the strength and complexity of the argument[...]
A single-volume selection of the influential Objectivist poet's works includes several of his short pieces as well as excerpts from his twenty-four-part, "A," in a collection that offers insight into his experimentations with exacting literary details and use of musical language.[...]
Stationer, byggarbetsplatser, tomma punkter för radikal förvandling. Med dessa ord, hämtade ur den lista som inleder diktsamlingen With Strings , beskriver Charles Bernstein någonting som skulle kunna vara hans eget poetiska arbete såsom det har utformats under de senaste 35 åren; en varierand[...]