Charles Bernstein (1950- )

A selective list of online literary criticism for American poet Charles Bernstein, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA guidelines for web pages

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literary criticism

"Charles Bernstein." An introduction to Bernstein, with text for some of his poems, from the Academy of American Poets

Fischer, Barbara K. "Into the Language Lab." Boston Review, March/April 2007

Huang, Yunte. Reviews of 21st-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics, by Marjorie Perloff; and With Strings. Boston Review, Summer 2002

Lazer, Hank. "The People's Poetry." Boston Review, April/May 2004

Pritchett, Patrick. A review of Republics of Reality, 1975-1995. Rain Taxi, Summer 2000

Quinn, Paul. "Rattling the chains of free verse: The surprising survival of Language poetry and poetics." Jacket Magazine 12 (July 2000)

Rubinstein, Raphael. A review of Poetry Plastique, edited by Jay Saunders and Charles Bernstein (Marianne Boesky Gallery and Granary Books, 2001). Art in America, Feb, 2002

Thurston, Michael. "Writing the elephant: Five books on modern poetry." Thurston reviews Bernstein's Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word. (Oxford Univ. Press 1998) and four other books. College Literature, Fall 1999

Ward, Geoff. A review of My Way: Speeches and Poems. Reviewed in Boston Review, Nov./Dec. 1999

web sites

PennSound. Directors Bernstein, Charles and Al Filreis. Vast anthology of poetry readings. Thousands of MP3 files, 422+ poets represented including William Carlos Williams, Jack Spicer, Jackson Mac Low, Clark Coolidge, Ezra Pound, Barbara Guest, Amiri Baraka, James Tate, Joe Brainard, Fanny Howe, Anne Waldman, Ted Berrigan, Ron Silliman, Bob Perelman; links to 36 US poetry reading series; additional MP3 files of interviews, poets reading the classics, group readings; podcasts, videos, news, etc.

The Charles Bernstein page at the Electronic Poetry Center, (SUNY Buffalo) contains extensive material, including his poetry, some critical articles by him, and links to interviews with him and critical articles on him

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