- Alan Bernheimer
Alan Bernheimer (born in 1948), is an American poet, often associated with the San Francisco
Language poets .Biography
Born and raised in
New York City , Bernheimer graduated in 1970 from Yale College, where he became friends with poets Steve Benson,Kit Robinson ,Rodger Kamenetz , and Alex Smith and studied literature withA. Bartlett Giamatti andHarold Bloom and poetry withTed Berrigan ,Peter Schjeldahl , andBill Berkson . He continued his association with theNew York School poets and theSt. Mark's Poetry Project for several years, and moved toSan Francisco in 1976, where through Benson and Robinson he met other writers--such asRae Armantrout ,Carla Harryman ,Lyn Hejinian , Tom Mandel,Ted Pearson ,Bob Perelman ,Ron Silliman , andBarrett Watten --who would soon become known as the San FranciscoLanguage poets . Bernheimer wrote and performed for Poets Theater and produced and hosted the radio program of new writing by poets, "In the American Tree" onKPFA from 1979 to 1980.Since the early 1980s, Bernheimer has worked as a corporate communications executive for Bay Area technology companies. He is married to Melissa Riley, a San Francisco public librarian and freedom-of-information activist.
Books by Alan Bernheimer
* [http://www.geoffreyyoung.com/thefigures/cafe.html Café Isotope] , 1980, [http://www.geoffreyyoung.com/thefigures.html The Figures] (Berkeley, CA)
*State Lounge, 1981, [http://www.durationpress.com/tuumba/ Tuumba] (Berkeley, CA)
* [http://www.geoffreyyoung.com/thefigures/cafe.html Billionesque] , 1999, [http://www.geoffreyyoung.com/thefigures.html The Figures] (Great Barrington, MA)
*Cloud Eight, 1999, Sound & Language – withKit Robinson Translation
* [http://www.whalecloth.org/bernheimer/intro.htm The Hamlet of the Bees] (Valery Larbaud), 1981, [http://www.whalecloth.org/ Whale Cloth]
Plays
*"Particle Arms," produced by
San Francisco Poets Theater , 1982, published in Hills, 1983
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