Charles Bernstein

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]

Charles Bernstein
Born	(1950-04-04) April 4, 1950 (age 75) New York City, US
Citizenship	American
Education	Bronx High School of Science (1968)
Alma mater	Harvard College (AB, 1972)
Occupation(s)	poet, essayist, editor, professor
Employer	University of Pennsylvania
Notable work	Republics of Reality: 1975-1995, All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems, Attack of the Difficult Poems"Essays and Inventions, Recalculating
Style	L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
Spouse	Susan Bee
Children	Emma Bee Bernstein, Felix Bernstein
Awards	Roy Harvey Pearce/Archive for New Poetry Prize, Guggenheim, NEA[1]

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

• 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

• 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

• List of poets from North America