Charles Bernstein

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Charles Bernstein
Born (1950-04-04) April 4, 1950 (age 73)
CitizenshipAmerican
EducationBronx High School of Science (1968)
Alma materHarvard College (AB, 1972)
Occupation(s)poet, essayist, editor, professor
EmployerUniversity of Pennsylvania
Notable workRepublics of Reality: 1975-1995, All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems, Attack of the Difficult Poems"Essays and Inventions, Recalculating
StyleL=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
SpouseSusan Bee
ChildrenEmma Bee Bernstein, Felix Bernstein
AwardsRoy Harvey Pearce/Archive for New Poetry Prize, Guggenheim, NEA[1]

Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein is the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania.[2]

He is one of the most famous members of the Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets).

In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3]

Bernstein's selected poetry from the past thirty years, All the Whiskey in Heaven, was published in 2010.

Poetry[change | change source]

  • Asylums (1975)
  • Parsing (1976)
  • Shade (1978)
  • Poetic Justice (1979)
  • L E G E N D, with Bruce Andrews, Steve McCaffery, Ron Silliman, Ray DiPalma (1980)
  • Controlling Interests (1980)
  • The Nude Formalism, with Susan Bee (1989)
  • Islets/Irritations (1983)
  • The Sophist (1987)
  • Rough Trades (1991)
  • Dark City (1994)
  • Republics of Reality: 1975–1995 (2000)
  • With Strings (2001)
  • Shadowtime (opera libretto) (2005)
  • Girly Man (2006)
  • All the Whiskey in Heaven (2010)
  • Recalculating (2013)
  • Near/Miss (2018)
  • Topsy-Turvy (2021)

Prose[change | change source]

  • Content's Dream: Essays 1975–1984 (1986)
  • "Artifice of Absorption" (1987)
  • A Poetics (1992)
  • My Way: Speeches and Poems (1999)
  • A Conversation with David Antin (2002)
  • Attack of the Difficult Poems (2011)
  • Pitch of Poetry (2016)

Related pages[change | change source]

References[change | change source]

  1. Bernstein, Charles. "CV". Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  2. "Department of English". upenn.edu. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  3. "American Academy of Arts & Sciences". amacad.org. Archived from the original on 17 September 2010. Retrieved 19 July 2015.