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Charles Bernstein

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Charles Bernstein · Arts & Literature

What

Poet / lyricist

When

1950, New York City, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Charles Bernstein is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Poet / lyricist

How & why

Charles Bernstein is an American poet and theorist, a founder of the Language poetry movement that reshaped avant-garde American verse by foregrounding the materiality of language and the reader's active role. He is Jewish. A longtime professor at the University of Pennsylvania, he won the 2019 Bollingen Prize.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Poets & Lyricists

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Poet / lyricist

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Poets & Lyricists