"L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E started as a bimonthy magazine of infrmation and commentary, a forum for discussion and interchange. Throughout, we have emphasized a spectrum of writing that places its attention primarily on language and ways of making meaning, that takes for granted neither v…
This book presents the possibility of a robust dialogue for all who are committed to critique and enhance the problem of graven images and yet know that even the absent God must be accounted for in contemporary thought. It includes the reflections of significant commentators, th…
Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative P…
by Bernstein, Charles, Kimmelman, Burt, Robinson, Elizabeth, Conners, Carrie, Fink, Thomas, Fink, Thomas, Murphy, Sheila E., Miller, Stephen Paul, Halden-Sullivan, Judith, Gallagher, Kristen, Javier, Paolo, Lazer, Hank, Luck, Jessica Lewis, Schmidt, Christopher, Tabios, Eileen R.
fromModern and contemporary poetics
The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry. Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry con…
Long anticipated, Recalculating is Charles Bernstein's first full-length collection of new poems in seven years. As a result of this lengthy time under construction, the scope, scale, and stylistic variation of the poems far surpasses Bernstein's previous work. Together, the poe…
In 1990 Sun & Moon Press published the first American translation of the brilliant Soviet poet Arkadii Dragomoschenko, Description. The book garnered a great deal of attention in the United States and led one critic, Marjorie Perloff, to ponder about the possibility of influence…