Commentaries - July 2012  Convolution Journal for Critical
Experiment  including my 2007 interview with Nie Zhenzhao
(excerpted here)   A 2007 interview I did with Nie Zhenzhao and
published in Chinese translation in Foreign Literature Studies
(Vol. 29, No. 2 April 2007) is also included. Here is an
exceprt, mostly focussing on Parsing (1976, Eclipse digital
edition, 2006), but also on some of the poems in Controlling
Interests (1980).  NIE: Generally speaking, the poetry you
focused on in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E puts more emphasis on written
(visual) dimension of poetry than on the spoken (oral)
dimension. Maybe this partly accounts for why you have
collaborated with visual artists. However, in Close Listening:
Poetry and the Performed Word, which you edited, you emphasize
the sound of poetry. Does this reflect a shift in your own
approach?  BERNSTEIN: I think as I began to perform my work more
and more, and also as I organized more and more readings and
poetry events, I began to feel that I had not sufficiently add