Contributors

Charles Bernstein

Contributor History

Three Poems, Conjunctions:5
Five Poems, Conjunctions:11
Common Stock, Conjunctions:14
Virtual Reality, Conjunctions:15
State of the Art, Conjunctions:17
Travail Vertical et Blanc and Work Vertical and Blank, Conjunctions:23
Reading Red, Conjunctions:35
A Dialogue, Conjunctions:35
The Meandering Yangtze (Rivers and Mountains, 1966), Conjunctions:49
Three Poems, Conjunctions:50
Recalculating, Conjunctions:56
Elfking Suite, Conjunctions:60 (mp3, 00:17:44)
Elfking Suite, Conjunctions:60

Biography

Charles Bernstein is the author of a collection of poems entitled Recalculating, (University of Chicago Press), as well as Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays & Inventions (University of Chicago Press). Bernstein is a Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

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In Print

Conjunctions:73

Earth Elegies

Fall 2019
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Three Poems

by Laura Kolbe

March 31, 2020

in the pharmacy of the child
one used a hopscotch stone
a jacket zipper one’s tongue
the sharper tongue of a friend
anything to get one’s soft skin back

Cut

by Paul Lisicky

March 17, 2020

1.

Because he could picture himself curled up on the shelf of the refrigerator between the bread and the light.

2.

Because he stared up at the sprinkler attachment and thought of it as a metal flower.

The One Who Takes Your Name

by David Bajo

March 10, 2020

Mears takes your name. As soon as you say it, he speaks it in quick echo, and it is now his and no longer yours. We don’t know what he does with it or what it does for him, but we do know what happens to those he pilfers.