[4]​ Charles Bernstein es autor de 16 libros, incluyendo All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2010), Blind Witness: Three American Operas (Factory School, 2008), Girly Man (University of Chicago Press, 2006), y My Way: Speeches and Poems (Chicago, 1999).

También ha publicado otras 16 plaquetas, numerosos ensayos, traducciones, libretos de ópera.

boundary 2 ** The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy.

*Hejinian, Lyn; Barrett Watten, eds.

"A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982–1998."

Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology.

National Poetry Foundation, 1986; reimpreso, con nuevo epílogo, 2002.

Artifice and Indeterminacy: An Anthology of New Poetics.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1985 ** A Poetics.

Press, 1992 ** My Way; Speeches and Poems.

Simulcast: Four Experiments in Criticism.

Textual Politics and the Language Poets.

Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally.

*Lutzkanova-Vassileva, Albena, "The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry: Reference, Trauma, and History."

New York: Bloomsbury, 2013*McCaffery, Steve.

North of Intention: Critical Writings 1973-1986.

** Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics.

The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History.

Language Poetry: Writing as Rescue.

Colección inicial de conversaciones y ensayos que sitúan la poesía del lenguaje en el pensamiento político contemporáneo, la lingüística, y la tradición literaria.

How Phenomena Appear to Unfold.

** Objects in the Terrifying Tense / Longing from Taking Place.

** How Phenomena Appear to Unfold.

Language Poetry and the American Avant-Garde.

Keele: British Association for American Studies, 1993.

The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics.

Berkeley, CA: Atelos, Small Press Distribution, 1998.

The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography.

ISBN 978-0-9790198-0-7 - este trabajo se describe como un experimento en curso en la autobiografía colectiva de diez escritores[6]​ identificado con la poesía del Lenguaje en San Francisco.

El proyecto constará de 10 volúmenes en total.