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Truth Be Told
by Charles Bernstein and Charles Bernstein
Contributors
Charles BernsteinCharles Bernstein’s most recent books are Pitch of Poetry (2016) and Recalculating (2013), both from the University of Chicago Press. He is the co-editor, with Tracie Morris, of The Best American Experimental Writing 2016 (Wesleyan University Press, 2017). He teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is co-director of PennSound.
Charles BernsteinCharles Bernstein is the author of more than twenty books. He teaches at UPenn.
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