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Charles Bernstein

Bibliography

 

POETRY BOOKS

    • Girly Man. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.

 

    • Warrant. New Delhi: Aark Arts / Contemporary World Poetry, 2005.

 

    • World on Fire. Vancouver: Nomados, 2004.

 

    • With Strings. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001.

 

    • Let's Just Say. Tucson: Chax, 2003.

 

    • Republics of Reality: 1975-1995. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 2000.

 

    • Dark City. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1994.

 

    • Rough Trades. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1991.

 

    • The Absent Father in Dumbo. La Laguna: Zasterle, 1990.

 

    • Four Poems. Tucson: Chax, 1988.

 

    • Veil. Madison: Xexoxial, 1987.

 

    • The Sophist. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1987.

 

    • Islets/Irritations. New York: Jordan Davies, 1983.

 

    • Resistance. Windsor: Awede, 1983.

 

    • Controlling Interests. New York: Roof, 1980.

 

    • Stigma. Barrytown: Station Hill, 1981.

 

    • Disfrutes. Boston: Potes and Poets, 1981.

 

    • Poetic Justice. Baltimore: Pod, 1979.

 

    • Senses of Responsibility. Berkeley: Tuumba, 1979.

 

    • Shade. College Park: Sun & Moon, 1978.

 

    • Parsing. New York: Asylum's, 1976.

 

    • Asylums. New York: Asylum's, 1975.

 

 

ESSAY BOOKS

    • Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1986.

 

    • A Poetics. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992.

 

    • My Way: Speeches and Poems. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999.

 

    • A Conversation with David Antin. New York: Granary, 2002.

 

LIBRETTI

    • Shadowtime. Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2005.

 

    • Café Buffé. Slope E-Chapbook #2, 2002.

 

    • The Subject. Buffalo: Meow, 1995.

 

COLLABORATIONS

    • Some of These Daze. With Mimi Gross. New York: Granary, 2005.

 

    • With Strings. Collaboration with Richard Tuttle: poem-sculpture composed of letters strung from a spiraling brass line and grounded in a terra-cotta filled with the poem's roots. 2000-2001.

 

    • Log Rhythms. With Susan Bee. New York: Granary, 1998

 

    • Reading Red. With Richard Tuttle. Köln: Walther Konig, 1998.

 

    • Little Orphan Anagram.< With Susan Bee. New York: Granary, 1997.

 

    • 20 Brief Proposals for Seminars on Art & Technology. With James Sherry, and Bruce Andrews. Buffalo: Meow, 1995.

 

    • Fool's Gold. With Susan Bee. Tucson: Chax, 1991.

 

    • The Nude Formalism. With Susan Bee. Los Angeles: 20 Pages, 1989.

 

    • The Occurence of Tune. With Susan Bee. New York: Segue, 1981.

 

EDITOR

    • Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems. New York: Library of America, 2006.

 

    • 99 Poets/1999: An International Poetics Symposium. Spec. issue of Boundary 2 26.1 (1999).

 

    • Modern and Contemporary Poetics. With Hank Lazer. A book series from the University of Alabama Press (1998 - ).

 

    • Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word. New York: Oxford UP, 1998.

 

    • "13 North American Poets." With Susan Howe. TXT 31 (1993).

 

    • The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy. New York: Roof, 1990.

 

    • Patterns/Contexts/Time: A Forum. With Phillip Foss. Tyuonyi 6-7 (1990).

 

    • "43 Poets (1984)." Boundary 2 14.1-2 (Autumn, 1985-Winter, 1986).

 

    • The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book. With Bruce Andrews. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1984.

 

    • "Language Sampler." Paris Review 86 (1982).

 

WEB

 

    • Co-Director/Founder, with Al Filreis, PENNsound (2003-).

 

    • Editor, and co-founder with Loss Pequeno Glazier, Electronic Poetry Center (1995- ).

 

    • Editor and co-founder with Ton van 't Hof, International Exchange for Poetic Invention

 

    • Editor, Web Log (at the Electronic Poetry Center).

 

    • Listowner/founder, Poetics listserve (1993- ).

 

OPERA / MUSIC THEATER

    • Cafe Buffe. Libretto commissioned for composer Dean Drummond's New Band Tour; "My Data's Gone" and "It Must Be Time" premiered at Washington Square Church, 1999.

 

    • The Lenny Paschen Show. Libretto for an opera with composer Ben Yarmolinsky. American Opera Projects, Blue Door Studios, New York, November 1992; libretto published as Abacus #86, 1994 .

 

    • The Subject. Libretto for an opera with Ben Yarmolinsky, excerpts performed at "Friends & Enemies of Music", Greenwich House, New York, November 1991 & February 1992.

 

    • Blind Witness News. Libretto for an opera with composer Ben Yarmolinsky. American Opera Projects, Blue Door Studios, New York, December 3-4, 1990.

 

RADIO PRODUCTION

    • LINEbreak. Poetry interviews, host/co-producer. Twenty-six 30-minute programs, dist. Public Radio Satellite Program and on the Internet. 1995-1996.

 

    • Studio 111. Discussion with poets at the University of Pennsylvania. 2004-.

 

    • Close Listening. Readings and conversations, on WPS1 (PS1-Museum of Modern Art). 2005-.

 

ARCHIVE

    • Manuscripts, letters, and papers, 1962-2000, are housed at the Mandeville Special Collection Library, University of California, San Diego.

 

CRITICAL RESPONSES

    • Beach, Christopher. "Conclusion. Reappropriation and Resistance: Charles Bernstein, Language Poetry and Poetic Tradition." ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition. Berkeley: U of California P, 1992. 237-252.

 

    • Manuel Brito. "The Self and Its Social Concerns in Charles Bernstein's Poetic Work." Estudios de Filología Inglesa en honor de Antonio Garnica. Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla. 2005. 63-79.

 

    • Lazer, Hank. "Charles Bernstein's Dark City: Polis, Policy, and the Policing of Poetry," Opposing Poetries: Readings. Vol. II. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1996. 123-146.

 

    • Nathanson, Tenney "Collage and Pulverization in Contemporary American Poetry: Charles Bernstein's Controlling Interests." Contemporary Literature 33.2 (Summer 1992): 302-318.

 

    • Naylor, Paul "(Mis)Characterizing Charlie: Language and the Self in the Poetry and Poetics of Charles Bernstein." Sagetrieb 14.3 (Winter 1995): 119-138.

 

    • Perelman, Bob. "Write the Power: Orthography and Community." The Marginalization of Poetry. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1996. 79-95.

 

    • Reinfeld, Linda. "Bernstein's Pharmacy." Language Poetry: Writing as Rescue. Baton Rouge: Lousiana State UP, 1992. 50-85.

 

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