Sophist

Charles Bernstein was born in Manhattan in 1950. He has published 27 collections of poetry including With Strings, Republics of Reality: Poems 1975-1984 and Controlling Interests. His essays are included in My Way: Speeches and Poems and Content’s Dream: Essays 1975-1984. Bernstein is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.Ron Silliman has written and edited 24 books of poetry and criticism to date, including the anthology In the American Tree. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two sons, and works as a market analyst in the computer industry. Since 1979, Silliman has been writing a poem entitled The Alphabet. Volumes published thus far from that project have included ABC, Demo to Ink, Jones, Lit, Manifest, N/O, Paradise, ®, Toner, What and Xing.

Charles Bernstein has reintroduced a spirit of polemic into the world of American poetry. In the exhausted atmosphere in which so much of our writing takes place, Charles Bernstein has battled long and hard to make both writers and readers aware of the implications embedded in each and every language act we partake of as citizens of this vast, troubled country.

• The Text, the Beloved? Bernstein’s Sophist by Ron SillimanThe Simply The Voyage of Life Fear and Trespass Entitlement Outrigger The Years As Swatches The Only Utopia Is in a Now From Lines of Swinburne Special Pleading Micmac Mall (Sunset at Inverness)Dysraphism By Cuff Hitch World Like DeCLAraTionS in a HymIE CEMetArY Romance I and the Pafnucio Santo and the American FriendThe order of …RenumberationThe Rudder of InexorabilityThe Last PuritanAcquiescence Foreign Body Sensation Team Bias Searchless Warrant Amblyopia Total Body Clearance Prosthesis Use No Flukes Safe Methods of Business Why I Am Not a Christian A Person Is Not an Entity Symbolic but the Divine Incarnate Rose the Click for 23 Surface Reflectance Brain Side View The Harbor of Illusion