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Charles Bernstein

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Books (full texts on-line):

Asylums (1975, Eclipse digital edition, 2006)
The Charm of the Many (pdf), catalog for Mimi Gross's September 2002 show at Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York: Essay and poem by Bernstein, Preface by Dominique Fourcade, full chronology/cv, plus 45 color plates.
A Conversation with David Antin and Album Notes (Granary Book, 2002): pdf
Dark City (1994, Sun & Moon Press, PDF)
Disfrutes (1974, (PEPC Digital Edn, 2005)
L=A=N=G=U=G=E, complete run of original issues, in PDF and .gif formats (Eclpise)
Legend, complete text of 1980 book by Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma, Steve McCaffery, and Ron Silliman, in .pdf and .gif formats.(Or download .pdf from EPC.) (Eclipse.)
Log Rhythms (1998)-- complete Granary Book, with pictures by Susan Bee, via UbuWeb
The Nude Formalism, with pictures by Susan Bee (Other Voices e-edn., 2006; Sun & Moon, 1989): recommend to view with facing pages (2-up). Pages: Title page,"Gosh"; pdf with view of facing pages
The Occurrence of Tune; pictures by Susan Bee (1981; Eclipse Digital Edition, 2007)
Parsing (1976, Eclipse digital edition, 2006)
Poetic Justice (1979, Eclipse digital edition, 2011)
Red, Green, and Black, by Olivier Cadiot, tr. Bernstein (1990) (PEPC Digital Edition, 2005)
Rough Trades (1989) (PEPC Digital Edition, 2005)
Shade (1978; Eclipse Digital Edition, 2007)
Some of These Daze, with Mimi Gross, Granary Books (2005)
Three Compositions on Philosophy and Literature (1972) (Asylum's Press Digital Edition, 2012)
Three Works (pdf), from /ubu, Publishing the Unpublishable (2008)
Veil (1976): html PEPC edition; also pdf of Xexoxial Edition and Scrbd edn

Poems:

Poems from Recalculating:
"The Truth in Pudding" in Poems & Poetics
"Recalculating" (Conjunctions, 2011)
"Before You Go" (ArtCritical.Com, 2011)
tr. of Khelbnikov's "Incanttion by Laughter" (2009)
tr. Hugo's "Tomorrow, dawn ..." with Rothenberg commentary (2009)
tr. Baudelaire's "Be Drunken"
Three poems in the final issue of Electronic Poetry Review (2008) ("You Say Insipid, I say Inscripsit," "What makes a Poem a Poem?" and "Up High Down Low Too Slow")
"A Theory's Evolution" (Philadelphia Inquirer, 2006)
The Twelve Tribes of Lacan" (MiPoesias, 2006)
"Great Moments in Taches Blanches" (Reconfigurations, 2007); commentary by Franklin Winslow at Baruch blog
Sane as Tugged Vat, Your Love (homophonic translation of Leevi Lehto's Finish) (from RIF/T 4.1) (forthcoming in Recalculating)
"Armed Stasis" in Plume (2013)
"All the Whiskey in Heaven"(including "text flow" version)
Poems from Girly Man
Poems from With Strings
Poems My Way:
Dear Mr. Fanelli
Gertrude and Ludwig's Bogus Adventure
"A Defence of Poetry" (text and sound)
"Beyond Emaciation"
"The Influence of Kinship Patterns upon Perception of an Ambiguous Stimulus" from Dark City & afterword to The Tribe of John, ed. by Susan Schultz
Four poems from The Sophist; "Oshamnu" from The Sophist

UNCOLLECTED POEMS:
"Catachresis, My Love" and "The Lie of Art" in Battersea Review #2 (2013)
Two poems from The World (1982)
"Also the Sun Rises," EOAGH (2012)
"Chimera," Virginia Quarterly Review (2012)
"High Tide at Race Point," Poets.Org (2012)
"Evaluation," Joyland Poetry (2012)
13 poems, PoetsArtists Dec. 2011 (pp. 22-38)
"You Never Looked So Simulating" (Geist, 2010)
"Work in Progress," "No Hiding Place," Cattulus #85, "Irreconcilable Disrepair," "You Never Looked So Stimulating" in Work #10
"Definitions of Brazil," with Régis Bonvicino from Sybil (2007)
"Sad Boy's Sad Boy" from Poetry (June 2007) (forthcoming in Recalculating)
"In the Next Issue" & "Charmless Vector-Vector Decays"' in David Trinidad issue of MiPoesis
"Work in Progress" (2006): WebLog, Exquisite Corpse
"The Rumsfeld Tablets" (on the the looting of the Baghdad museum) (May 2003)
"Desmanifesto: Singing Under Test" (in English/Portuguese/Spanish), transformação de Régis Bonvicino (falas em espanhol por Odile Cisneros)
Poem for Robin Blaser's 80th Birthday (from Shampoo #24) (forthcoming in Recalculating)
Two homophonic translations: "Me Tranform O!" (from Régis Bonvicino's Portuguese) and from Basque
"Nuclear Blanks" (homophonic translation of Esteban Pujals's Spanish)-- Featured in Lingo (archive.org)

Essays :

Nine essays from Attack of the Difficult Poems: Poems and Inventions
Nine essays from My Way: Speeches and Poems
Two essays from A Poetics: " Play It Again Pac-Man" (from Postmodern Culture, vol. 2, no. 1) and "Second War and Postmodern Memory" (from Postmodern Culture, vol. 1, no. 2): both also available to subscribers from Project Muse.
from Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984:
"Maintaining Space (on Clark Coolide"
"The Academy in Peril: William Carlos Williams Meets the MLA" (1983)
"The Stadium of Explanation" on Baudrillard's The Mirror of Production: go to last page (99) in Code of Signals pdf.
"Three or Four Things I Know about Him" -- A Hundred Posters #26 (1978)

UNCOLLECTED:
"Ways of reading: Marjorie Perloff and the sublimity of pragmatic criticism" in Jacket2 (2012)
"This Picture Intentionally Left Blank: Rob Fitterman's "Holocaust Museum," Heimrad Backer's "Transcript," Christian Boltanski's "To be a Jew in Paris in 1939," and the documentary poetics of Raul Hilberg (2012) & Berlin Memorials (2012)
"You Can't Evict an Idea: The Poetics of Occupy Wall Street," Jacket2 (2011)
"George Kuchar's Otherworldly Humanity," Brooklyn Rail (2011)
"The Pataque(e)rical Wager" M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online #5 (2011)
"Eigner's Fierce Calculus" and discussion, Jacket 2
"Reznikoff''s Voices" (on Holocaust CD) (Poems & Poetics, 2011)
On Ashbery's Rivers and Mountains (Conjunctions, 2007)
Preface to Jerome Rothenberg's Triptych
On Maggie O'Sullivan (Foreword to Body of Work)
On Claude Royet_Journoud
Afterword to Robin Blaser's Holy Forest: Collected Poems (from Jacket)
On Robin Blaser's The Fire: Collected Essays
"Leaking Truth: Britsh Poetry in the 1990s"
Knockin on Heavens Door: Bob Dylan and the Adolescent Sublime (The Brooklyn Rail, Sept. 2006
Introduction to the Library of America Selected Louis Zukofsky, via Jacket 30 (2006)
Barbara Guest: Composing Herself (Bookforum, April 2006; Jacket 29
On Raymond Federman ("Some Answers for Raymond Federman")
On Kenneth Goldsmith's Traffic
"Brooklyn Boy Makes Good: Charles Reznikoff, the Poet of New York" in Brooklyn Rail, March 2006 (review of Collected)
"Robert Creeley: Hero of the Local" (Golden Handcuffs); slightly exapanded from original in Brooklyn Rail / May 2005
Jackson Mac Low tribute in Bookforum (Feb./March 2005 issue)
"Cooking by Number"
DeCampos Thou Art Translated (Knot) (on Haroldo de Campos)
"The Difficult Poem" (from Harper's, June 2003)
SPF: Rating Paul Wolfowitz (from Radical Society)
"Enough!" (on poetry and the war, March 2003)
"An Mosaic for Convergence" (1997) a hypertext essay in EBR 6
Introduction to the work of Ezra Pound (from Poetry Speaks anthology)
"A Conversation with Geoffrey O'Brien" on the Library of America anthologies (from boundary 2)
"On Hannah Weiner (1997)" from Jacket #12
Claymation: A Reader's Guide (on Granary's Books)
Poetry and/or the Sacred" from Jacket
"First Love" from PSA Journal
Review of Johanna Drucker's, The Visible Word
"Hermit Crabs Don't Cry" (3/5/94 Poetics List post)
"Pound & Man at Yale"
"Thoughts on Larry Eigner"
Frank Kuenstler 1928-1990
notable books 2005

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Hank Lazer, "What Is a Poet?" (1984): 25th anniverary web site with panel pdf, new introduction, photos.

Visual/Conceptual/Digital Works:

"An Mosaic for Convergence" (1997), a hyptertext essay published by EBR; stills: B-O-0-K, The Medium, Access, The Virus, Defaults, Textui, Politics, Politics 2
China Signs
"Every True Religion Is Bound to Fail" (2007) broadside by Jeremey James Thompson
HTML Veil Series (June 1996):
Cannot Cross, Illuminosities, Littoral, This Us, Absolves, Veil, Alphabetica, Alphabetica 2
Kenny Goldsmith's The Weather by Charles Bernstein (2006); 2d edn (2011)
Language of Bouquets (1991)
outtakes from this series: For Emma (1), For Emma(2), cuboid & detail
None Dare Call It Treason (2007)
Placards at Sybil (2008 U.S. election)
>Placards full set (expanded to 2001)
Quick Muse poem-as-process (2006)
This is the text (2011)
Veil (1976)-- html epc edition; also pdf of Xexoxial Edition
>See also: "Study for Veil" -- featured in King Log
& 2 "other" Veils from the Sackner collection not in book
>Veil ("I became a consultant to the world outside") (5¾ x 12 inches) (Sackner jpg of same image)
>"Window's End" (DC Poetry, 2005 annual)
>"Horizon" Veil ; (Sackne r jpg) (N.B.: Sackner catalog)
plus: two postcard veils:
>1978 (privately printed in an edn of c. 400)
>1980, published by Station Hill Press

Collaborations:

Some of These Daze , with Mimi Gross
The Introvert, with Jill Moser
"With Strings," with Richard Tuttle, word sculpture for Poetry Plastique
Little Orphan Anagram, with pictures by Susan Bee (Granary Books) (excerpts from Riding the Meridian); full book at Artists' Books On Line.
Log Rhythms -- complete Granary Book, with pictures by Susan Bee, via UbuWeb
The Nude Formalism, with pictures by Susan Bee (Other Voices e-edn., 2006; Sun & Moon, 1989; ) Pages: Title page,"Gosh": pdf with view of facing pages.
Fool 's Gold, with pictures by Susan Bee (Chax Press, 1991)
Susan Bee & Charles Bernstein in conversation with James Shivers -- on their collaborations, from Artkrush
Bee/Bernstein stills (2006): "Rights vs Wrongs (Devil)," "Dumbstruck"
"Steps to a Lime's Ballet", collaboration with Jack Collom (1982)
"Johnny June" (1971), with Susan Bee
For Gerrit Lansing's 75th birthday, with Susan Bee (2003)
"Disfrutelos" (1977), with Susan Bee, via Ubu.com

Libretti:

Shadowtime -- an opera by composer Brian Ferneyhough, libretto by Charles Bernstein -- engages the life and work of Walter Benjamin: photos from the May 2004 Munich Biennalepremiere, reviews, sound files of performances of the libretto and link to text of "Stelae for Lost Time" (featured in Boston Review), plus information about the opera and its productions. The complete libretto is published by Green Integer.
Café Buffé, music by Dean Drummond, complete libretto featured in Slope 15
from Blind Witness News, libretto for an opera by Ben Yarmolinsky -- Featured in Ploughshares

Editor

S/N: NewWorldPoetics, with Eduardo Espina (2010-)
Modern and Contemporary Poetics, with Hank Lazer, a book series from the University of Alabama Press (1998 - )
American Poetry after 1975 (Duke University Press, 2009) (Speciall Issue of boundary 2, 36:3)
Sibila (São Paolo)
Poetry Plastique, ed. with Jay Sanders, exhibition catalog (New York: Granary Books / Marianne Boesky Gallery, 2001)
"L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Lines" in The Line in Postmodern Poetry, ed. Frank/Sayre (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1988)
43 Poets (1984), special issue of boundary : pdf of full issue
"Language Sampler" in Paris Review 1982: at Eclipse; also single pdf scan of issue.
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, with Bruce Andrews (New York: 1978‑1981)

Interviews:

"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)
A brief interview with Ploughshares (2006)
Romana Freschi inteview, Buenos Aires, June 2005 (Plebella/Green Integer Review; rpt Healing Matrix (2006)
Eric Denut Inteview (mostly on Shadowtime), from Argonist Online (2005); also in All About Jewish Theater
Payam Fotouhipour interview, from Readings #1 (2004) (interview from Spring, 2003)
Chicago Postmodern Poetry interview (April 2004)
"Setting the World on Fire," interview with Leonard Schwartz (March 15, 2004), Jacket 29 (2006)
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
A Conversation with Henry Hills (from 1985), Midway #1 (2006)

In translation:

for translations of Girly Man, go to Girly Man poems

Charles Bernstein, ed., Néstor Cabrera, tr., La política de la forma poética [The Politics of Poetic Form, Spanish translation]

History of my collaborations with Leevi Lehto

Der Hammer (Vienna) "Attack of the Difficult Translations" – 8pg folio. tr. into German Versatorium (Peter Waterhouse et al) (#60 – pdf, Nov.)
Two poems from Shade, French tr. Martin Richaet in Poezibao (2012)
Shadowtime, French tr. Juliette Valery (full libretto)
4 poems tr. Abigail Lang in Recours au Poème (July 2012)
"Italian Border of the Alps" coll. tr. into German; bilingual: Karawa.Net 003 (2011)
"Poetry Bailout" and "Dollar Value of Poetry" in German at Karawa. Net
Periodica del Poesia: 4 poems tr. Román Luján (Gracias por decir gracias, Cuestionario, cada lago, Por qué no medito, Todo el whiskey del cielo)
Questionaire, O Globo, Brazil (2011)
four poems tr. French by Abigail Lang
Russian translation by Ian Probstein (2010-2012):
Russian Gulliver: "Sign Under Test" intro essay early version, "Beyond the Valley of the Sophist," "The Impunity of Garden Flowers," and "Ruminative Ablution"
The Journal of POets [Zhurnal POetov]: "Strike!" in #6 (38) & "Chimera" and "Whose Language" in # 9 (41)
Okno [Window]: "Thank You for Saying Thank you," "Poem," "Verdi and Postmodernism," "Human Abstract" in #10 (November 13)
Innostrannya Literatura [Foreign Literature]: "War Stories," in #6 (June)
New Literary Observer (Novie Literaturnoie Obozreniye) 110 (April): – "Introductory essay by Probstein,"Introjective Verse," 11 poems: "The Kiwi Bird in the Kiwi Tree," "How to Disappear," "Gertrude and Ludwig's Bogus Adventure," "Thinking I think I think," "But Pharaoh Did Not Listen to Moses," "The Throat," "Anaffirmation," "Low Regrets," "These Horses Do Not Move Up and Down," "Why We Ask you Not to Touch," and "Make It Snappy & That’s Final."
"Gracias por decir gracias," & "Cuestionario" (both from Girly Man), tr. Román Luján
"Contra el Mes Nacional de la poesía como tal," tr. Jorge López Lara
"El poema dificil," tr. Romina Fresch
"Kære hr. Fanelli,"tr. Danish Henrik Majlund Toft
Multiple German tr. of "Catabolism" in Karawa.Net Hugo Ball issue
"Beyond the Valley of the Sophist," Russian Gulliver (2010)
"The Practice of Poetics, "Polja #461 Jan./Feb. (Novi Sad, Serbia):
Poetry Bailout, French tr. Abigail Laing, New (2009)
"Introjective Verse" in Portugues, Sibila #12 (pdf of whole issue) (2007)
Transductions of "Johnny Cake Hollow" in nypoesia (2007)
Parsing in Italian, tr.Gherardo Bortolotti (2007)
Runouden puolustus. Esseit ja runoja kahdelta vuosituhannelta (A Defence of Poetry. Essays and Poems From Two Millennia) [Finnish], tr./ed. Leevi Lehto (Helsinki: Nihil Interit and Kirja kerrallaan: the entire book is available as a pdf from the publisher. Finnish web page related to book, including reviews and information of related Fiinish projects/events.
Die Theorie des mangelhaften Design
"Artifice of Absorption", tr. into Russian by Patrick Henry, Alexei Parshchikov and Mark Shatunovsky, in Contemporary Poetry (Sovremennaia Poeziia); issue 2 (1 June 2007) and issue 3 (1 September 2007): intro, part one, part two
"Stein Professing/Professing Stein," tr. Paal Bjelke Andersen & "A Defence of Poetry", tr. Øyvind Berg (Norwegan), Nypoesia (2006)
Publico (Lisbon) interview (2006)
Croniópios (Brazil) (2006): conversation with Solange Rebuzzi in Rio
"Solidarity Is the Name ...," "Thank You for Saying Thank You," tr. into Serbo-Croation by Dubravka Djuric in Diwan (2004)
Sibilia Inverview, Brazil (August 2002)
"Desmanifesto: Singing Under Test" (Sibilia, 2002)
Martin Richet's French translation of "St. McC." from Shade
Jörgen Gassilewski's translations into Swedish of "The Only Utopia Is in a Now," "Virtual Reality", and set of short poems from Rough Trades from Nypoesia (2003)
"Dear. Mr. Fanelli" translated into Spanish by Jorge Santiago Perdenik, from Clarin (2003)
"Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word" translated into Norwegen by Svein Svarverud, from Nypoesi (2003)
Five poems, tranlated into Estonian by Hasso Krull, from Ninnuka (2002)
Poems translated into Finnish by Leevi Lehto, Tommi Nuopponen and Tuomas Nevanlinna
Interview with Jesper Olsson, from Svenska Dragbladet (Sweden), 21 January 2002
Interview with Frederick Hertzberg, from Hufvudstadsbladet (Swedish language newspaer in Helsinki), August 2001

Archive:

Charles Bernstein Papers, 1962-2000, are housed at the Mandeville Special Collection library, University of California, San Diego

Emphemera/Archival
Kenneth Goldsmith mark-up of "Lift Off" (2010)
Marat/Sade poster (1970)
Segue Distributing catalogs
Alt. L= titles; a note to subscribers
Poetics Program (historical/archival):
The Poetics List
Historical set of Wednesday at 4 posters and calendars (1990-2005)
1991 First Poetics Program flier: pdf
New Coast Conference flier (1993) : jpg
"A Haven for Poet-Scholars: Poetry Program in Buffalo Blends Creativity and Criticism" by Liz McMillen in Chronicle of Higher Education, July 28, 1995": pdf
1999 Poetics Program flier / intro
"Letter from Buffalo" by Paul Quinn, TLS, June 30, 2000: pdf
A Web Site Grows New Poems, Sometimes Right Before Readers' Eyes [on the EPC], by Zoe Ingalls, Chronicle of Higher Education,July 25, 2000: pdf