My Way_ Speeches and Poems - Charles Bernstein

Claire-in-the-Building. Mirage #4/Period(ical) (1993).
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Again Eigner. Larry Eigner died in 1996 at the age of 69. I've combined some comments
written at the time of his death with a brief introduction I wrote for an Eigner
celebration at U C-Berkeley's University Art Gallery in June 1993, which appeared in
Private Arts 10 ( 1966). The citations are from Eigner's essay on the cover of the first issue
of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. "The Only World We've Got" was written as a commentary
for the 1988 republication of Eigner's "Anything on Its Side" in 0 One/An Anthology,
edited by Leslie Scalapino (Oakland: 0 Books); citations are from this poem.
Frame Lock. Presented on December 29, 1992, at the annual meeting of the Modern
Language ASSOciation, in Washington, D.C., as part of a panel called "Framing the
Frame: Theory and Practice". College Literature 21, no. 2 (1994).
"Passed by Examination": Paragraphs for Susan Howe. The Difficulties, Susan Howe
Issue, edited by Tom Beckett (1989).
The Value of Sulfur. Based on a speech delivered at "An Evening with Sulfur" at the
PEN American Center in New York on October 6, 1988. The original version was published
in Margin, no. 11 (1990).
Gertrude and Ludwig's Bogus Adventure. Gabriele Mintz is Marjorie Perlon's original
name, as she notes in the preface to Wittgensteins Ladder. Ribot 5 (1997).
Introjective Verse. Written in response to a request from Olivier Cadiot and Pierre
Alferi for a piece about "Olson and Projective Verse" for their Revue Ginirale de Litirature
and published in the second issue (1996), translated and chopped into hexameter by
Jean-Paul Auxemery. Chain 3, no. 1 (1996).
Poetics of the Americas. Written for "An Area of Act": Race and Readings in American Poetry,
edited by Aldon Nielsen (University of Illinois Press, in press) and first published
in Modernism/Modernity 3, no. 3 (1996). Much of the material in this essay was presented
in a series of seminars at the Poetics Program at SUNY-Buffalo; I am indebted to many
of the participants for their response. Thanks also to Nick Lawrence, Robert von Hallberg,
and Jessica Burstein for valuable comments on the manuscript; and to Ernesto
livon Grosman for providing me an opportunity to present an early version of this
essay at a symposium, "The Poetics of the Americas", at NYU in the fall of 1994. "Bans
0' Killing" is quoted with Louise Bennett's permission.
Unzip Bleed. Hambone 12 (1995).
Stein's Identity. Stein issue, edited by Marianne DeKoven. Modern Fiction Studies (MFS)
42, no. 3 (1996).
Provisional Institutions: Alternative Presses and Poetic Innovation. Presented at
the annual meeting of the Modem Language Association on December 29, 1993, in
Toronto, at a session of the institutions of poetry, organized by Robert von Hallberg.
Reprinted from Arizona Quarterly Review 51, no. 1 (1995), by permission of the Regents
of the University of Arizona.
Pound and the Poetry of Today. Versions of the first section were posted on March
17 and 22, 1996, on the UB Poetics list, an electronic discussion group, and replies to