Charles Stein is the author of ten books of poetry including The Hat Rack Tree (1994), Parts and Other Parts (1982), Horse Sacrifice (1980), and Poems and Glyphs (1973). Robert Kelly has called Stein “. . .a poet with all the means of his craft at hand. . .one of the smartest men of his generation, and one of its most exemplary poets.” Stein also is the author of the critical study The Secret of The Black Chrysanthemum (1987, Station Hill Press), a critical study of Charles Olson’s poetry and prose, and the editor of Being = Space x Action: Searches for Freedom of Mind in Mathematics, Art and Mysticism(1998).
Stein has collaborated and continues to work with George Quasha in the production of “dialogical” criticism: innovative approaches to the discussion of literature, art, and related concerns. He is the inventor and practitioner of a species of “Sound Poetry” and has published “Text-Sound Texts” arising from his work in both music and literature.
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