In a Restless World Like This Is
Charles Bernstein, "In a Restless World LIke This Is" from Girly Man. Copyright © 2006 by Charles Bernstein. Reprinted by permission of The University of Chicago Press.
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Poet Charles Bernstein b. 1950
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD Language Poetry
Subjects Living, Life Choices, The Mind, Time & Brevity, Social Commentaries, History & Politics
Biography
Poet, essayist, theorist, and scholar Charles Bernstein was born in New York City in 1950. He is a foundational member and leading practitioner of Language poetry. Bernstein was educated at the Bronx High School of Science and at Harvard University, where he studied philosophy with Stanley Cavell and wrote his final thesis on Gertrude Stein and Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the mid-1970s Bernstein became active in the experimental . . .
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SUBJECT Living, Life Choices, The Mind, Time & Brevity, Social Commentaries, History & Politics
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD Language Poetry
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