Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Charles Bernstein
Born: April 4, 1950 (age 75)
Bio: Charles Bernstein is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein holds the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the most prominent members of the Language poets.
Known for:
- All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (2010)
- Close Listening (1998)
- My Way: Speeches and Poems (1999)
- Content's Dream (1986)