8s

by Michael Bernstein

Michael Bernstein is a writer, bass player, and intermedia composer. He received a BA from Columbia College, and an MFA from Naropa University. His work has appeared in publications such as New American Writing, milk, and BlazeVOX, as well as in numerous chapbooks. With Michael Crake, he edits the online literary arts magazine Pinstripe Fedora. Michael currently lives in Cleveland Heights, OH.


"Michael Bernstein's '8s' are brisk, eclectic fragments, tightly wound but readily evocative. Their force is in a distilled brevity, words that come on strong but bring a willingness to linger, imagery kept center by Bernstein's sparseness and economy. With this latest collection, Michael Bernstein continues to establish himself as a poet on our radar, definitely one to watch."
-- Lynn Alexander, managing editor of Full of Crow Press

"In Michael Bernstein's galaxy, words are stars and poems are constellations. The poems make sense or unsense of the brilliantly mundane arc of our lives."
-- Suzanne DeGaetano, owner of Mac's Backs-Books on Coventry

36 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2012

About the author

Michael Bernstein is the author of the chapbooks cinderbook (Gold Wake Press, 2009), the rot to light (Gold Wake Press, 2010), 8s (Scantily Clad Press, forthcoming 2010), imaginary grace (Recycled Karma Press, 2010), from “a heap of swords and mirrors” (Bedouin Books, forthcoming 2010), the transit illuminate (mud luscious press, 2010), nanostars (greying ghost press, forthcoming 2010), the Fire District (Differentia Press, 2010), Well (Splitleaves Press, 2010), and death ray (Minutes Books, forthcoming). His poems have appeared in magazines such as New American Writing, Puppy Flowers, milk, Moria, BlazeVOX, Columbia Poetry Review, Conundrum, Ink Node, swap/concessions, 13myna birds, Unscroll, Cannot Exist, A Trunk of Delirium, The Bathroom, The Balloon, Monkey Puzzle, Phraseology, and Pinstripe Fedora. He currently co-edits the online literary arts magazine Pinstripe Fedora, has appeared as a featured reader in numerous U.S. cities, has had his work featured on NPR's "Chicago Amplified" program, and has written book reviews for Gently Read Literature and Tarpaulin Sky. Michael lives and writes in Cleveland Heights, OH.