Charles Bernstein
Charles Bernstein is the author, most recently, of The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Topsy-Turvy (Chicago, 2021) and Pitch of Poetry (Chicago, 2016).
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This morning’s scam emails (opens the original)
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From: Sarah Waters Sent: Monday, September 28, 2026 9:58 PMTo: Bernstein, CharlesSubject: Question about Controlling InterestsHi Charles,I’m a novelist as well, and I came across Controlling Interests. What really stood out to me was how you handled the tension between individual language and the official discourses that surround and shape consciousness, balancing the intensely personal experience of trying to articulate an individual voice with something so much larger about language, experienc
Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End (opens the original)
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Near/Miss: Chinese translation by Feng Yi (opens the original)
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Lingua Fracta, or The Livery of Words (opens the original)
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Oshamnu (opens the original)
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As we near the close of our High Holy Day services for 5787, in these last hours of the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, let us say the litanies of confession, oshamnu: We are filled with guilt, we have been inbad faith, we have transgressedagainst others and we have mouthedlies. We have tolerated evil and proddedour hands to violence; we have beenpresumptuous, broken trusts, caused hatredand resentment, framed falsehood;We have counseled in self-interest, we havefailed in promise, we have scoffedt
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