Gerald Bruns

Gerald Bruns on Mallarmé (1969)

Mallarmé: The Transcendence of Language and the Aesthetics of the Book
The Journal of Typographic Research
July 1969

Gerald Bruns on Radical Coherency (Antin's essays) & Attack of the Difficult Poems

Alan Thomas, our University of Chicago editor
took this picture at the book launch, in Los Angeles,
for Antin's essay collection,
Marjoire Perloff's Unoriginal Genius
and my Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions.

just out:
Gerald Bruns reviews Radical Coherence and Attack of the Difficult Poems
in Jacket2's review section.

Recently in Jacket2

Time is a flat circle

Ray Coyne

Capsule reviews

Philadelphia-based writer and organizer Ray Coyne reviews three poetry collections: So Tough by Jared Stanley, Go Figure by Rae Armantrout, and Upstage by Bruce Andrews and Sally Silvers.

So Tough, Jared Stanley (Saturnalia, 2024)

Runa Bandyopadhyay on Pitch of Poetry

Rhythm of Literary Derangement: Pursuit of Karma Yoga

Charles Bernstein

Bandyopadhyay and Bernstein in Mumbai, 2024, for launch of Pataquerical Ballad

Runa Bandyopadhyay recently published an extended review of Pitch of Poetry in Chhapakhanar Goli, 21st year issue, April 2024 (W. Bengal). For this page, she adapted and extended that review to create a new essay in English, published here for the first time. I am publishing it as part of my ongoing, transformative, collaboration with Runa, outlined in the links at the end.

Wolgamot & Me: In Memoriam Keith Waldrop

Charles Bernstein

Keith Waldrop discovered John Barton Wolgamot’s 1944 poem, IN SARA, MENCKEN, CHRIST AND BEETHOVEN THERE WERE MEN AND WOMEN while browsing in a bookshop, as he recounts here. The poem was to remain a touchstone for him both its poetic power but also as a icon of how quixotic our poetic achievement are.