...Andrew David King 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...

..., it traces Bernstein's work as a radical modernist poet, distinguished scholar, and critical theorist in his own right from the late 1960s to the early 2010s. From his early poetry to L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E magazine, from his major books of poetry and collective avant-garde performances to his essays...

...Ian Probstein Abstract The essay explores the work of Charles Bernstein in light of constant renewal. John Ashbery, as one of the brightest representatives of the New York School, and Charles Bernstein, as a representative of the language (L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E), have similar attitudes...

... be a radical swerve away from opening things up, if, indeed, that was part of the founding mission, as it was with L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. In retrospect, anything that gets recognized creates a de facto bunker. The minute something is labeled and characterized, whether as a group (aesthetic program) or individual...

... to the large sequence, “L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E.” The first, Shade , was published in 1978, the same year the magazine was founded, and happens to be the first book published by Sun and Moon Press, which would later become one of the leading publishers of radical experimentation. The second, The Occurrence of Tune...

... upload their favorite poems—which I also took as a basis for this selection—the preference for the last phase of Bernstein's poetry, leaving a gap with respect to the years when he edited L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine and published one or two annual booklets, now downloadable for free. Being...

..., became simply whatever was published by a handful of specific presses and journals. Those early essays included tantalizing—and seemingly de rigueur—catalogs of fugitive titles: “Tottel’s, Hills, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, A Hundred Posters, This, Roof, 82  boundary 2  /  Fall 2009 where...

... large that it is more favorable for it to grow than to shrink back to nothing. This thermodynamic phase transition is the Language poetry movement. And L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, coedited by Bernstein, “a poet of the pataquerulous kind,” with Andrews, published its first issue in 1978, became...

.... Boston : Thomson Wadsworth . Allen Donald Butterick George , eds. 1982 . The Postmoderns: The New Ameri-can Poetry Revised . New York : Grove Press . Andrews Bruce Bernstein Charles , eds. 1978 . L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E , no. 1 . Accessed May 21, 2020 . http...

.... A Quick Graph was a model for writing essays and a fundamental resource for L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E , the Poetics Program, and my own quick graphs. In 1978, I sent Bob a copy of Shade , and he wrote me back a postcard noting “the steady resources of the ear,” which I have always loved and kept as a kind...

... remember doing a WBAI interview with Bruce and Charles about L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine. Never were there two greater mansplainers, I thought at that moment. I couldn't believe it. My little sentences, a little sliver, and then—whoo!—words, words, words, words. But we've remained friends ever since...

... they engage in “combative and territorial posturing.” Moreover, judged by the standards of an older generation, they backpedal. “Unlike their L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E forebears, Saidenberg, Moriarty, and Spahr insist that language is referential, that the sentence be combined syllogistically...

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...=A=N=G=U=A=G=E , the Futurists were crucial precursors and inspirations. More so than any of the other modernist movements, per se, and up there with poets like Gertrude Stein, who was so very different, especially in terms of her politics and relation to the collective. Speaking about Mandelstam...

... first published the little mimeographed journal called L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E , but the label is a bit misleading and, in any case, Charles is sui generis. Since the late 1970s, he has been a deeply moral voice, questioning human follies and Establishment values in all their forms. His eye and ear are almost...

... are characterized by an excessive difficulty [tamta¯z qasa¯ id Tsila¯n bi-s.u u¯ba ba¯ligha] (al-Ma a¯l ¯ 1999: 8), and one aspect of this diffi- culty is that, in Celan, I, overburdened in language, is disorganized as a gathering locus for sense; insofar as the poem occasions this disorganiza- tion...

... have the strongest force” (159). Their principal adversary is a 1950 cal collection of valid canons, and the Scalia and Garner book does not come close to filling that gap” (William N. Eskridge Jr., The New Textualism and Normative Canons, 113 Colum. L. Rev. 531 [2013], at 544). 6. Eskridge...

... voice of one's own. Language poets favored collaboration and created their own production and distribution circuits, which became forums for collective reflection: magazines, small presses, reading and talk series. In 1978, Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews founded L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, which...

... squalor. Prince's parents, John L. Nelson and Mattie Shaw, migrated to Minneapolis at this time, both from Louisiana. Rev. Rolland Robinson ( 2006 : 43), a United Methodist minister and former president of The Way in north Minneapolis, characterized the social and racial Minnesota mindset as one...