Log Rhythms

by Charles Bernstein, Susan Bee (Illustrator)

Poetry. Art. This collaboratiive book by Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee is lushly produced by Granary Books. The poem, which originally appeared in the magazine SALT, was written at Silver Bay, New York on Lake George. Susan Bee's illustrations frame and provide a Blakean counterpoint to Bernstein's text. Give me malted, give me malteds / & a turtledove beside / An AmEx card for the nursery / & a ticket to the Panopticon ride. Author of over twenty books, including, recently, A POETICS (Harvard) , DARK CITY (Sun & Moon), and SUBJECT (Meow), Charles Bernstein currently occupies the David Grant Chair of Poetry and Letters at SUNY, Buffalo. Artist Susan Bee has exhibited widely. She is the co-editor with Mira Schor of the art magazine M/E/A/N/I/N/G whose 1996 double issue is still avaialble from SPD.

19 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Charles Bernstein is an American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein holds the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the most prominent members of the Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets). In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2005, Bernstein was awarded the Dean's Award for Innovation in Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also been a visiting professor at Columbia University, Brown University, and Princeton University.

Bernstein's highly anticipated new work, All the Whisky in Heaven, will be published in Spring 2010 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Also to be released in the upcoming year is a Companion to Charles Bernstein, which will be published by Salt Publishing, the winner of the prestigious 2008 Nielsen Innovation of the Year award.

Reviews

[Mitch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hilarious, with the folksy, old wood look by Susan Bee. Great collaboration.