Creator Bio
Charles Bernstein
b. 1950
Poet Charles Bernstein grew up in New York City. He is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania, and is also an essayist, editor, translator, and librettist. Bernstein has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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An Affirmation
I am not I
when called to account—
plaster over, dumbly benched
the corrosive ardency
of blinkered identification.
To affirm nothing, a veil
of asymptotic bent,
prattling over-
tunes in the striated…