Andrew David King interviews Charles Bernstein on topics that include the composition of All the Whiskey in Heaven, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, the situatedness of poetry and poetics, Charles Altieri on the relation of poetry to rhetoric, poetry and identity poetics/politics, the Mandelstam translations in Recalculating, the relation of poetry to philosophy, and elegy.

rhetoric, poetry, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, poetics, essays
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