HIGHLIGHT from Pratik's Current Issue:American Poet Charles Bernstein's Two New Poems

  

CHARLES BERNSTEIN

Two Poems

 

1.

because they

see my scraggly

beard, my crooked

hat, and the dark

shine from my

glasses, they say

I am a poet

 

 

after Leon de Greiff

(Medellin subway)

 

 

2.

After Stephen Ratcliffe

 

Horizon line shimmers

At edge of light

Umbra calls echo

 

            Branch’s horizontal intrusion

            Or is it claw?

 

            Not even quite white or blue

            Turquoise smudge winks

 

Fading pink fingers of mist

Evanescent liquid dissolving

Moment of change

 

Recipient of the Bollingen Prize from Yale University,  Charles Bernstein is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar. He  is the Donald T. Regan Professor, Emeritus, Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the most prominent members of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=Eor Language poets. His selected poems, All the Whiskey in Heaven, was published in 2010 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 

 

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