Issue 18: Charles Bernstein & Ted Greenwald
(Tom Raworth Memorial)
From The Course
For Tom & Val Raworth
Come to Think of It
Spits
Out
Real
Fall
High
Clouds
In
Which
Says
Spikey
Flutter
Curve
Away
This
Time
Early
Morning
Flight
Echoes
Echoing
Echo
Plot
About
About
Time
Insufficiency
Grating
Paper
Plate
Drone
In
My
Slowmation
Out
In
On
Then
Of
Among
E
Follow
Cap
Along
Away
Aways
Don’t
Mention
It
Stuck
In
Place
Rude
Mopeist
Motes
Low
On
Floats
Didn't
Oh!
Paint
You
Bet
(Yet)
Slip
Sure
Said
When
Got
This
Whatever
Appear
Knot
Armed
Or
Naught
Hover
Street
Sails
Spin
Splash
Speed
Knaw
How
No
Guessing
Passing
Mention
Consult
Cat
Stretch
Out
If
This
Blotter
Sky
Removal
Takes
Two
To
Screen
(The)
Article
Just
As
When
Face
Lit
Aperture
That
Them
There
Tow
Close
Case
Floating
By
As
The
Big
Picture
Only
Your
Just
Dog
Gone
Own
It
Sure
But
Hands
Kurds'
Way
Slakes
Sure
Thunder
Hidden
Willing
Fight
Then
Dodge
Which
Lift
The
Lid
On
Crocked
Bologna
Be
Up
On
Ever
Not
That
Blink
Voice
Tire
Ever
In
Cloud
Do
Say
Whomever
Pleased
Was
Slip
Clip
Sleeve
Swept
Forge
Gone
Dough
See
Dough
And
Away
You
Easy
How
Pretty
Go
Stay
Simply
Sip
Sofa
Roof
Back
Of
Mind
Or
For
Whom
Where
Snipers
Pay
In
What
Way
Say
Lots
Gains
Come-on
Heels
Mope
Steal
As
As
Don't
Worry
Only
If
Or
Even
See
Arc
Rave
Down
Dim
Aisles
Careful
Service
Dimples
Gump
Up
Shimmies
Arrival
Window
Moon
Only
To
Recoil
Rainy
Patter
Heart
And
Then
And
A
Breezy
Mix
Under
Wandering
Sky
Wake
70s
Bleak
Murk
Chirps
Longing
Hi!
In
60s
Sludge
Makes
Music
Tonight's
Some
Remembered
Chance
Less
Balance
Big
Eyes
Warmer
Glassy
Almost
Still
Of
That
Time
Drifts
In
Edge
Curl
Off
Brick
Anywhere
But
Up
Days
In
Weeks
Flap
Like
Geese
Ear
Toot
Roof
Smoothly
Sawing
Prime
The
Swell
Mome
Where
Swept
I
Own
Boat
Unknown
Til
Time
Can’t
Sh(o)w
(The)
R(oo)m
Charles Bernstein’s Pitch of Poetry, new essays, was published in 2016 by the University of Chicago Press. His most recent book of poems is Recalculating (Chicago, 2013). In 2010, Farrar, Straus & Giroux published All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems. Bernstein is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is co-director of PennSound. There is an interview with Tom Raworth you can listen to on Pennsound here: http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Raworth/Studio111/Raworth-Tom_Studio111-Intrvw_UPenn_3-13-06.mp3
Ted Greenwald (1942-2016) is the author of two new books from Wesleyan University Press: Common Sense, a reprint of his early selected poems, and The Age of Reasons, ed. by Miles Champion. He lived his life in New York City. Listen to his work on PennSound.
