With Strings

Bernstein, one of the founders of the Language Poetry movement and now a chaired professor at SUNY Buffalo, continues in this, his 20th book, to explore and delight in the way sounds and signs Continue reading »

As co-editor of the journal L=A=N= G=U=A=G=E, poet and critic Bernstein has published writers whose shared goal is the transformation of society. Since words encode social values, the writer must Continue reading »

"These statements are based on current expectations and projects about the aesthetic environment and assumptions made by the author and are not guarantees of future performativity," writes Continue reading »

At the center of this collection from Bernstein (Recalculating), poet, translator, librettist, and guiding spirit of the Language school of poetry, is the question, “What does it mean to be Continue reading »

At once the most paradoxically controversial and popular, accessible and most difficult of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, Bernstein is also the writer of that group who strove early on to experiment with Continue reading »

One of the key theorists of the workshop-busting Language poets, the charismatic Bernstein (A Poetics; Dark City, Rough Trades) continues to expand his purview past the formal concerns of that group. Continue reading »

This gathering of 30 years worth of work by the prominent L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poet and essayist offers a rigorous critique of the art of poetry itself, which means, among other things, a thorough Continue reading »

Taking a more archaic approach are poet Susan Howe (My Emily Dickinson, etc.) and artist and critic Susan Bee (The M / E / A / N / I / N / G Book) ""Pensive itinerants and exhorters/ gathering Continue reading »