Poetry. Limited Edition. First edition limited to 200 copies, most of which are signed. Translations by Charles Bernstein of poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, Charles Baudelaire, Osip Mandelstam, Bernard Noel, Paulo Leminski, Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, Regis Bonvicino, Catullus, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Claude Royet-Journoud, and Victor Hugo. Covers hand printed by Charles and Nora Alexander. Painting on covers (handpainted on each separate cover) by Cynthia Miller.

Author City: PHILADELPHIA, PA USA

Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein holds the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the most prominent members of the Language (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E) poets. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2005, Bernstein was awarded the Dean's Award for Innovation in Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also been a visiting professor at Columbia University, Brown University, and Princeton University.