Publication Date: 25-Sep-12 | ISBN: 9781844714858 | Trim Size: 228 x 152 mm | Extent: 388pp | Format: Paperback / softback
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“What we have here is the ideal Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Charles Bernstein: the coverage is wide, & all you need is “to be ready, not prepared.” You will not be asked to lounge on the couch as nobody remembers its colors, but the essays come in all colors, except sad. Enjoy, & then get back to the poems.” —Pierre Joris
“A major poet for our time — & then some – Charles Bernstein has emerged as a principal voice –maybe the best we have – for an international avant-garde now in its second century of visions & revisions. It is in celebration of this that the Salt Companion to his work appears here, to show him in a trajectory from an American-centered language poetry in the 1970s to an active & significant relation to a constantly renewing & expanding global poetry in which his singularity has played a vital role. What becomes clear in these pages is how his generosity of mind & spirit continues to enrich us all.” —Jerome Rothenberg
Introduction
William Allegrezza
Charles Bernstein Or An Insistence To Communicate
Caroline Bergvall
Either You’re With Us And Against Us: Charles Bernstein’s
Girly Man, 9–11, And The Brechtian Figure Of The Reader
Tim Peterson
The Cave Children Of New York Are Never Free
Miekal And
The Metaphysical Mouth And The Asylum Of The Everyday: Charles
Bernstein And Contemporary Continental Philosophy Of Language
Michael Eng
“Gazoop” Replaces “Is/Are” “In A Restless
World Like This Gazoop Gazoop”
Madeline Gins
Girly Men Ballads: (Il)Legible Identities In
Charles Bernstein And Gertrude Stein
Kimberly Lamm
That Poem For Charles Bernstein
Lars Palm
“Spectres Of Benjamin”: (Re)Presentation And (Re)
Semblance In Charles Bernstein’s Shadowtime
Steven Salmoni
What As Poetic
Steve Mccaffery
Taking On The Official Voice: Charles Bernstein’s Poetic
Sophistry And Post-Process Writing Pedagogy
Megan Swihart Jewell
From The Alphabet
Ron Silliman
Beyond The Valley Of The Sophist: Charles
Bernstein, Irony, And Solidarity
Paul Stephens
Poem For Charles
Ray Craig
To Think Figuratively, Tropically: Charles Bernstein’s Post-9/11
Grammar And Pragmatist Lessons In The Age Of Baudrillard
Jason Lagapa
Charles Bernstein’s Anti-Suburban Poetry
Peter Monacell
Some Nouns
Donald Wellman
From A Philosophy Of Poetry To Poetry As Philosophy:
The Dialectical Poetics Of Charles Bernstein
Carlos Gallego
Content’s Profusion: Noise, Interruption And Reverse
Peristalsis In The Poetics Of Charles Bernstein
Michael Angelo Tata
Charles Bernstein In Buffalo 1999–2004
Kristen Gallagher
Charles Bernstein’s Catalogue Poetry
Thomas Fink
Readdressing Constructivism And Conceptual
Art:Aspects Of Work Factured By Charles Bernstein
Allen Fisher
Circles From Which
Maggie O’sullivan
Visual Strategies: A Line, A Verse, Something On Paper
James Shivers
After Residual Rubbernecking (A Speculative Non-Serial Anti-Romance)
Erica Hunt
A Life, Spliced: On The Early Tapeworks Of Charles Bernstein
Michael S. Hennessey
cover photo by Emma Bee Bernstein
