Edition #47: Maggie O'Sullivan Interview



Maggie O'Sullivan answers questions about the elusive meaning of her work, about her performances, and about the visual work in her books and its relation to her poetry. from students at the University of Pennsylvania. Maggie O'Sullivan is a poet, performer and visual artist from Yorkshire, in the north of England. Her most recent book is Body of Work.
 

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Conversations and readings with poets and artists, produced in cooperation with PennSound and hosted by Charles Bernstein, the American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein was born in New York City in 1950. He is a foundational member and leading practitioner of Language poetry. Bernstein was educated at the Bronx High School of Science and at Harvard University, where he studied philosophy with Stanley Cavell and wrote his final thesis on Gertrude Stein and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

In the mid-1970s Bernstein became active in the experimental poetry scenes in New York and San Francisco, not only as a poet, but also as an editor, publisher, and theorist. With visual artist and wife Susan Bee, Bernstein published several now well-known poets whose work is associated with Language writing.
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