Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein

William Allegrezza edits the e-zine Moria and teaches at Indiana University Northwest. He has previously published many poetry books, including In the Weaver's Valley, Ladders in July, Fragile Replacements, Collective Instant, Aquinas and the Mississippi (with Garin Cycholl), Covering Over, and Densities, Apparitions; two anthologies, The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century and La Alteración del Silencio: Poesía Norteamericana Reciente; seven chapbooks, including Sonoluminescence (co-written with Simone Muench) and Filament Sense (Ypolita Press); and many poetry reviews, articles, and poems. He founded and curated series A, a reading series in Chicago, from 2006-2010. In addition, he occasionally posts his thoughts at P-Ramblngs. He earned his PhD in Comparative Literature at Lousiana State University.mIEKAL aND is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Yet To Be Invented Languages at the Invisible College of the Republic of Qazingulaza. He is the author of numerous books of experimental text & visual poetry available from www.xexoxial.org. His digital poetry & hypertext works can be found at www.joglars.org. In 2011 his lifelong poem Samsara Congeries will be published by BlazeVox [books].Caroline Bergvall was born in 1962 of French-Norwegian nationalities and has been based in England since 1989. She is widely published and her text pieces and collaborations have been produced internationally. Her work plays around with perception through language games, sexual ecstasies, multilingual speech, sited texts and ephemeral gestures. She is Research Fellow in Performance Writing at Dartington College and co-chair in Writing, Bard College.Ray Craig writes from San Bruno, California.Michael Eng is assistant professor of philosophy at John Carroll University in Cleveland, OH, where he teaches courses in aesthetics, philosophy and literature, Marxism and Critical Theory, and philosophy and film. His areas of research include post-Heideggerian aesthetic and literary theory, philosophy of the image, philosophy and architecture, and film theory. He has published previously on Ingeborg Bachmann’s Frankfurt Lectures and Todesarten Projekt and is currently at work on two manuscripts: “The Scene of the Voice: Language and the Aisthēsis of Finitude” and “The Sense of the Image: The Metaphysical Imaginary in Cinema, Architecture, and Philosophy.”Thomas Fink. Professor of English at CUNY-LaGuardia, is the author of two books of criticism, including A Different Sense of Power (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2001), and seven books of poetry, including Peace Conference (Marsh Hawk Press, 2011), as well as co-editor of two anthologies. His work appears in The Best American Poetry 2007 (Scribner’s). Fink’s paintings hang in various collections.Allen Fisher is a poet, painter, publisher, editor and art historian, lives in Hereford. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry & Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has exhibited in many shows including Hereford 2013, London 2003 and York 1993. Examples are in the Tate, the Living Museum, Iceland, King’s Archive London and various private collections. His last four books were Place, Entanglement, Gravity and Proposals.Kristen Gallagher is the author of Operator (Rubbaducky) and We Are Here (Truck Books). Recent poetry has been published in West Wind Review and A Similar But Different Quality, and two reviews of Tan Lin’s work have appeared this academic year: an essay on Heath Plagiarism/Outsource appeared in Criticism in Fall 2010, and a review of Seven Controlled Vocabularies appeared in Jacket2 in May 2011. She received her PhD from SUNY Buffalo in 2005.Carlos Gallego is an Associate Professor of English at St. Olaf College. His research interests include 20th century American literature and cultural studies, Chicano/a studies, comparative ethnic studies, philosophy and critical theory. He has published work in the academic journals Biography, Aztlán, Cultural Critique and Western Humanities Review. His book, Chicana/o Subjectivity and the Politics of Identity: Between Recognition and Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).Madeline Gins, co-inventor of reversible destiny and procedural architecture, would seem to have existed and to be still existing. Perhaps a great deal more could be written here about her.Michael S. Hennessey is the editor of PennSound and editor (with Julia Bloch) of Jacket2. His scholarly writing on sound, media and poetry has appeared in Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies (Routledge, 2011), Interval(le)s, English Studies in Canada,The Journal of Electronic Publishing and Jacket2. Recent poetry publications include Jacket, EOAGH, Elective Affinities, Brighton Approach: Gold Edition, Compost and Horse Less Review, along with Leonard Schwartz’s radio program Cross Cultural Poetics. He’s released two chapbooks: Last Days in the Bomb Shelter (17 Narrower Poems) and [ static ].Erica Hunt is a poet, essayist and author of Local History, Arcade, as well as two poem chapbooks, Piece Logic and Time Flies Right Before the Eyes. Other bits published in Boundary 2, Conjunctions, Poetics Journal, Tripwire, Recluse, various anthologies and the St. Mark’s Poetry Project newsletter. Hunt has received awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, the Fund for Poetry and the Djerassi Foundation.Megan Swihart Jewell is the director of the Writing Resource Center at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She teaches courses in writing, Gender Studies, and American Literature. Her current research focuses on the intersections between innovative poetics and writing pedagogy.Jason Lagapa is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas — Permian Basin, where he teaches courses in twentiethcentury and twenty-first century American poetry, postmodern fiction and creative writing. His articles on such poets as Leslie Scalapino, Jack Spicer, Frank O’Hara and John Yau have appeared in Contemporary Literature, Journal of Modern Literature and Theory@Buffalo. He is presently at work on a book on utopian thought and contemporary experimental American poetry.Kimberly Lamm is assistant professor of Women’s Studies at Duke University. Her research moves at the intersection of contemporary poetry, contemporary art, feminist theory, and American Studies. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Inadequacies and Interruptions: Language and Feminist Reading Practices in Contemporary Art.”Steve McCaffery is the author of more than 30 books and chapbooks of criticism and poetry. A founding member of the legendary Four Horsemen sound ensemble and one of the founding theorists of Language Writing, he now resides in Buffalo where he is the David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters ad Director of the Poetics Program.Peter Monacell recently received his PhD from the University of Missouri. His article on James Dickey’s “The Firebombing” appeared in The James Dickey Review, and another article, on modernist attitudes towards the suburbs, will be published in the Journal of Modern Literature. He lives in Columbia with his wife Michelle Diedriech.Maggie O’Sullivan is a British-based poet, performer and visual artist. For over thirty years, her work has appeared extensively in journals and anthologies (including Poems for the Millennium, Volume 2) and she has performed her work, often in collaboration, internationally. She is the editor of out of everywhere: an anthology of contemporary linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America and the UK (1996). More recently is Body of Work (2006), ALTO (2009), WATERFALLS (2011) and murmur (2011). The Salt Companion to Maggie O’Sullivan is also available. Her website is www.maggieosullivan.co.uk.Lars Palm lives with his lovely wife, currently in Malmö (Sweden). He works in health care, writes, translates & runs a small ungovernable press. His most recent chapbooks are what’s in a (The Red Ceilings Press, 2011) & (s)he dead (red ochre press, 2011).Tim Peterson (Trace) is a poet, critic, and editor. Author of the poetry books Since I Moved In (Chax Press) and Violet Speech ( 2nd Avenue Poetry), Peterson has edited EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts since 2003 and also curates the Tendencies: Poetics & Practice talks series on queer poetics and the manifesto at CUNY Graduate Center. Peterson’s critical writing has previously appeared in the books Burning Interiors: David Shapiro’s Poetry and Poetics, ed Fink and Lease (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press) and No Gender: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards (Litmus Press/Belladonna Books), as well as in journals such as EBR, Harvard Review, ON: Contemporary Practice, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. In 2006 Peterson edited a special issue of MIT Press’ journal Leonardo Electronic Almanac on “New Media Poetry and Poetics.” Peterson is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in English at CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.Steven Salmoni received a Ph.D. in English from Stony Brook University and is currently Department Chair of English at Pima Community College in Tucson, AZ. Recent publications include poems in Versal, Upstairs at Duroc, Sonora Review, Bombay Gin and Cannot Exist, as well as articles in The Journal of Narrative Theory, Studies in Travel Writing and The Critical Companion to Henry James. He serves on the Board of Directors for “POG,” a Tucson-based collective of poets and critics dedicated to the promotion of avant-garde literature and art.James Shivers wrote the first full-length study of Charles Bernstein’s work over ten years ago for his doctorate at the University of Lausanne. He was a Visiting Fellow in American Studies at Yale from 1999-2004 where he continued research in innovative poetics. While there he was an active member of the Yale Group of Contemporary Poetics. His critical and creative works have been published in England, Holland, Switzerland, and the United States. His most recent work Planetarium a fictional-nonfiction allo-biography is forthcoming.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.Paul Stephens’ recent critical writing has appeared in Postmodern Culture, Social Text, Paideuma, Arizona Quarterly, Journal of Modern Literature and Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory. He is co-editor of the journal Convolution, and has just completed a book manuscript titled “The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing.” He has taught at Bard, NYU and Emory, and currently teaches at Columbia University.Michael Angelo Tata is the Executive Editor of the Sydney-based electronic journal of literature, art and new media nebu[lab]. His Andy Warhol: Sublime Superficiality arrived to critical acclaim from Intertheory Press in 2010. His essays appear most recently in the collections Neurology and Modernity (Palgrave Macmillan) and Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander (Cambridge Scholars) and in the British journal Parallax (Routledge). Forthcoming poetry and graffiti will appear in the British journal Rattle.Donald Wellman, poet, essayist, and editor, has translated the poetry of Antonio Gamoneda (Cervantes Prize 2006). Wellman’s poetry includes A North Atlantic Wall, recently released by Dos Madres Press. In 2009, his Prolog Pages was published by Ahadada. Other titles include Urika, a chapbook from Boat Train in Gloucester, Baroque Threads (Mudlark) and Fields (Light and Dust). From 1981-1994, he edited the O.ARS series of anthologies, devoted to topics bearing on postmodern poetics, including volumes entitled Coherence, Perception and Translations: Experiments in Reading. In addition to Gamoneda, he has translated the poetry of Emilio Prados, Blaise Cendrars and Yvan Goll, among others. His translation of Gamoneda’s Gravestones is available from the University of New Orleans Press. He teaches at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, NH.

• William AllegrezzaIntroductionCaroline BergvallCharles Bernstein or an Insistence to Communicate Tim PetersonEither You're With Us and Against Us: Charles Bernstein's Girly Man, 9/11, and the Brechtian Figure of the ReadermIEKAL aNDThe Cave Children of New York Are Never FreeMichael EngThe Metaphysical Mouth and the Asylum of the Everyday: Charles Bernstein and Contemporary Continental Philosophy of LanguageMadeline GinsVoluming Dimensionalizing Gazoop What Gazoop Gazoop In A Restless World Like This GazoopKimberly LammGirly Men Ballads: (Il)legible Identities in Charles Bernstein and Gertrude SteinLars PalmThat Poem For Charles BernsteinSteven Salmoni"Spectres of Benjamin": (Re)presentation and (Re)semblance in Charles Bernstein's ShadowtimeSteve McCafferyWhat As PoeticMegan Swihart JewellTaking on the Official Voice: Charles Bernstein's Poetic Sophistry and Post-Process Writing PedagogyRon SillimanFrom The AlphabetPaul StephensBeyond the Valley of the Sophist: Charles Bernstein, Irony, and SolidarityRay CraigPoem for CharlesJason LagapaTo Think Figuratively, Tropically: Charles Bernstein's Post-9/11 Grammar and Pragmatist Lessons in the Age of BaudrillardPeter MonacellCharles Bernstein's Anti-Suburban PoetryDonald WellmanSome NounsCarlos GallegoFrom a Philosophy of Poetry to Poetry as Philosophy: The Dialectical Poetics of Charles BernsteinMichael Angelo TataContent's Profusion: Noise, Interruption and Reverse Peristalsis in the poetics of Charles BernsteinKristen GallagherCharles Bernstein in Buffalo 1999-2004Thomas FinkCharles Bernstein's Catalogue PoetryAllen FisherReaddressing Constructivism and Conceptual Art: aspects of work factured by Charles BernsteinMaggie O'Sullivancircles from whichJames ShiversVisual Strategies: a Line, a Verse, Something on PaperErica HuntAfter Residual Rubbernecking (a speculative non-serial anti-romance)Michael S. HennesseyA Life, Spliced: On the Early Tapeworks of Charles BernsteinNotes on ContributorsCreditsAcknowledgements