Charles Bernstein (poet)
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Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein is the Donald T. Regan Professor, Emeritus, Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania.[2] He is one of the most prominent members of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E[3] or Language poets. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4] and in 2019 he was awarded the Bollingen Prize from Yale University, the premiere American prize for lifetime achievement, given on the occasion of the publication of Near/Miss. Bernstein was David Gray Professor of Poetry and Poetics at SUNY-Buffalo from 1990 to 2003, where he co-founded the Poetics Program. A volume of Bernstein's selected poetry from the past thirty years, All the Whiskey in Heaven, was published in 2010 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein was published in 2012 by Salt Publishing and Charles Bernstein: The Poetry of Idiomatic Insistences, edited by Paul Bovê was published by Duke University Press and boundary 2 in 2021.
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Born | (1950-04-04) April 4, 1950 (age 74) New York City, US |
Education | Bronx High School of Science (1968) |
Alma mater | Harvard College (AB, 1972) |
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Employer | University of Pennsylvania |
Notable work | Republics of Reality: 1975–1995, All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems, Pitch of Poetry, Attack of the Difficult Poems, Recalculating, Near/Miss, Content's Dream, Topsy Turvy |
Style | L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E |
Spouse | Susan Bee |
Children | Emma Bee Bernstein, Felix Bernstein |
Awards | Bollingen Prize, Mûnster Prize, Janus Panonius Prize, Roy Harvey Pearce/Archive for New Poetry Prize, Guggenheim, NEA[1] |