Poetry. CAFE ISOTOPE is Alan Bernheimer's first book. Cover by the author.

Cafe Isotope

Literature & Fiction

Bernheimer, Alan

Poetry

The Figures

Poetry. The cover of this elegant collection is an impressive full-color photo, Ocean, by Dan Torop. A short fuse on a long afternoon/ twinges for concentrate/ as silent upholstery after illusion (Personal Life). We have waited a long time for a new collection of poems by Alan Bernheimer. Now, holding this utterly wonderful book in my hands, I can't help but think about that long time, the years of living. The vivacity of Bernheimer's earliest work -- his capacity for setting spirals of verbal witticism into motion and for executing wry dances of intelligence across contemporary landscape -- is still dazzling.... This only looks like a small book; in it, you will read major work. -- Lyn Hejinian. Saddlestapled chapbook.

Billionesque

"My Blue Hawaii"
Every queen loves a lobster with the nerve to kill time since it's easy to be sure in a bistro where more than dogs are turned away
Your mother had the particle but key words are too brittle to warp the probity of a lifetime for a perp walk through a wafer fab
If you don't pay attention to the little things the big things will fall down
It's only a pay per view moon and slowness makes everything royal Born and raised in New York City, Alan Bernheimer graduated in 1970 from Yale University, where he studied with New York poets Ted Berrigan, Peter Schjeldahl, and Bill Berkson. In 1976 he moved to San Francisco and spent time with other young writers such as Rae Armantrout, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, Kit Robinson, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten—a group who would soon become known as the San Francisco Language poets. Bernheimer also wrote and performed for Poets Theater and produced and hosted In the American Tree, a radio program of new writing by poets on KPFA. This collection includes recent work; brief selections from his first two books; the entirety of Billionesque (The Figures, 1999); and the play Particle Arms, which was produced by the San Francisco Poets Theater in the early '80s.

The Spoonlight Institute (Adventures in Poetry)

Adventures in Poetry

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Cafe Isotope

Billionesque

The Spoonlight Institute (Adventures in Poetry)