Michael Helsem

M. H. was born in Dallas in 1958. Shortly afterwards, fish fell from the sky.

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Charles Bernstein

New from University of Chicago Press: paper, cloth, e-book
Audible.com has also published an audiobook of my reading of the full work.

Artifice of Absorption: EPC Digital Library

Charles Bernstein

Gil Ott published "Artifice of Absorption" as a special issue of Paper Air in 1987. A revised version of the work is included in A Poeitics,published by Harvard University Press in 1992. A Poeitics remains in print. This edition, created around 2014, uses the text from A Poeitics, although the notes are in a separate file in this html version, while they are formatted as footnotes in A Poeitics. The version in A Poeitics is preferred; order it here.

HTML Edition of Artifice of Absorption