Bernstein, Charles

Bernstein, Charles (1950–), born in New York City and educated at Harvard, published the first of his large collection of poems, Parsing (1976), which initiated an emphasis on sound but not a unified meaning. Among his many later books are Poetic Justice (1979), Sense of Responsibility (1979), Artifice of Absorption (1988), and The Sophist (1988). His essays have been collected in Content's Dream (1985).

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