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Profile of Charles Bernstein
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Charles Bernstein |
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4th April 1950 |
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New York, New York, USA |
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Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, critic, editor and teacher. He was one of the most prominent members of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group of poets.
Early Life and Work
Bernstein was born in New York City and studied at the Bronx High School of Science and Harvard College, graduating in 1972. His first book, Asylums was published in 1975. Together with Bruce Andrews he edited L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine, which ran to 13 issues between 1978 and 1980. This was one of the most important outlets for L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry, and in 1984 he and Andrews published most of the contents of the 13 issues in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book. During this period, Bernstein also published three more books of his own poetry: Parsing (1976), Shade (1978) and Poetic Justice (1979), while earning a living as a freelance editor.
Bernstein and Poetics
Bernstein is one of the foremost thinkers of the poets associated with L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, and his two collections of essays, Content's Dream: Essays 1975 (1986) and A Poetics (1992), as well as his My Way: Speeches and Poems(1999) expand a position on poetry based, in part, on his close reading of the philosophy of Karl Marx, Groucho Marx, and Ludwig Wittgenstein and the writings of Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukofsky, and William Carlos Williams.
Recent Life and Works
From 1989 to 2003, Bernstein was David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was co-founder and Director of the Poetics Program at that university. He is also co-founder of The Electronic Poetry Center at Buffalo. He is currently Regan Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, where he is co-founder of PennSound. Since 1980, he has published a further eighteen books of poetry, as well as editing a number of anthologies of prose and verse. Working with the composers Ben Yarmolinsky, Dean Drummond, and Brian Ferneyhough he has written the librettos for five operas and has collaborated with a number of visual artists, including his wife, Susan Bee and Richard Tuttle.
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