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:70

Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue

Spring 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Sequentials

by Colin Fleming

August 14, 2018

The coffee from yesterday warmed up and left in the microwave, the late-December sky two hours before the sun comes up outside of smudgy windows. Sitting. The desk. The bed. The bed the desk. It’s funny the things we hold on to, for no particular reason, or no good reason.

Six Poems

by Jessica Reed

July 31, 2018

Perhaps we should begin in extreme heat
              or intemperate ice,                  in salt solutions,
              in drastic acid or radical alkaline,         in heavy metals
or in toxic waste—                    wherever life seems improbable

Done to Scale

by Michael Harris Cohen

July 24, 2018

First, an unsteady tree of clothing inside the door: the coat rack, heaped with jackets, scarfs and furs, most torn, buttons missing, some stained, all rarely worn as few ever go out—for what is outside the house but another house?