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
Four Poems, Conjunctions:75

Biography

Charles Bernstein’s new collection of poems, Topsy-Turvy, is out in spring 2021 (University of Chicago Press). Bernstein is the 2019 recipient of the Bollingen Prize for lifetime achievement in poetry and for Near/Miss (University of Chicago Press) and 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:76

Fortieth Anniversary Issue

Spring 2021
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Getting Out of Janesville

by Angela Woodward

May 5, 2021

Because they’re in Florida, their position on the terrace is glorified with a gigantic orange ball sinking into serene water, streamers of pink snaking along the blue, the whole thing so … so … validating? And the pelicans! “Look, dude! Pelicans!”

“You can’t shout ‘Pelicans!’ every time we see pelicans. We’re in Florida, babe. There’s tons of pelicans.”

“But that’s the point …” the equestrian’s former friend muses.

Burn Scars

by Jaime Robles

April 28, 2021

Fire hurtles past on both sides bubbling black
At the edges. He wakes to a solitary yellow line
Glowing desolation. House truck dog are gone
Evaporated into red sky and patchy earth, snags
Decorate the darkness. Out of his scars grow
Thin buds. Imperfect impermanent incomplete,
He falls back as if falling into a pool, arms out

The Parenthesis Hunter

by Mikaël Gómez Guthart, Jesse L. Anderson

April 21, 2021

Book thieves as well as purloiners of ancient maps and medieval spell books, whose superficially absurd tactics often belie a mastery of their skill, are both well-known and feared by booksellers and librarians. A list of the various methods and stratagems used to outwit an employee’s vigilance would be endless, and while vendors have certainly come up with more or less effective techniques to stem this scourge, the fact remains that to this day none has managed to catch even a single parenthesis hunter in the act.