Controlling Interests (Roof Books) - Softcover

Bernstein, Charles

 
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Synopsis

The poems of Controlling Interests by Charles Bernstein continually reveal his desire for connecting the individual to the world through language. This early book is one of the most original and imaginative in American lyric verse.

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About the Author

Charles Bernstein is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar. He is one of the most prominent members of the Language writers. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 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 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Charles Bernstein: The Poetry of Idiomatic Insistences, edited by Paul Bovê was published by Duke University Press and boundary 2.

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ISBN 10:  9991053271 ISBN 13:  9789991053271
Publisher: Segue Foundation, 1985
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