Ataraxy
Too
good
to
be
good
(
he
said
)
meaning
leave
well
enough
as
is
:
don’t
guild
a
lily
nor
paint
defined
gold
(
if
you
can
help
it
)
.
Peace
of
mind
is
hard
enough
without
anxiety
.
[for Richard Tuttle]
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https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/bernstein/
Charles Bernstein is the author, most recently, of The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Topsy-Turvy (Chicago, 2021) and Pitch of Poetry (Chicago, 2016). His work was the subject of The Poetry of Idiomatic Insistences, edited by Paul Bové, the Fall 2021 issue of boundary 2. With Davide Balula, he wrote a series of AI-generated poems published as Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End (2023).