Charles Bernstein: The Poetry of Idiomatic Insistences, edited by Paul Bové, from boundary 2 / Duke University Press (308pp, $12) Ordering information and TOC: http://jacket2.org/commentary/bernstein-b2

This issue includes Bernstein’s most informative and significant international interviews, many published here in English for the first time. Through prefaces and essays responding to translations of his work, including translations appearing for the first time in this issue, contributors place Bernstein’s work in both global and local contexts. Includes an extended review of Topsy-Turvy.

Contributors: Luigi Ballerini, Runa Bandyopadhyay, Charles Bernstein, Paul A. Bové, Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich, Natalia Fedorova, Feng Yi, Jean-Marie Gleize, Susan Howe, Yunte Huang, Pierre Joris, Abigail Lang, Leevi Lehto, Marjorie Perloff, Ian Probstein, Ariel Resnikoff, Brian Stefans, Enrique Winter

(On-line with library access to b2 in early Nov.)