Charles Bernstein Web Log

Flash slapamedia: Sir Lucious Bernstein, New Pages review of All the Whiskey

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:51:04 -0700

Larry O. Dean
on All the Whiskey in Heave: Selected Poems
New Pages

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“Samba de Orly,” Sir Lucious Bernstein: The Son of Herman Joseph

link | 09-02-10

Tan Lin EPC page

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:58:56 -0700

Tan Lin
EPC home page
edited by Danny Snelson

link | 08-31-10

Hannah Weiner issue of Wild Orchids

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:29:50 -0700

WILD ORCHIDS
vol. 2
Hannah Weiner

Coda to
Hannah Weiner's The Book of Revelations
Marta Werner

from The Book Of Revelations
Hannah Weiner
(excerpts from previously unpublished ms
ed. Marta Werner)

LINEbreak Hannah Weiner Interview
(transcript of undedited recording)
Charles Bernstein
(with a brief intro by Martin Spinelli)

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Hannah Weiner and Our "Unknown Collaborators"
Laynie Browne

Apartment Drama
Corina Copp

Fashion Auras
Kaplan Harris

from The Life and Times of Annie Weiner
Jennifer Karmin

No One Asked You
Joey Yearous-Algozin

"TELLINGS TRUTH"
Jennifer Russo

Hannah Weiner's Clear-Sighted Journal
Jeremiah Bowen

Radiant Elvis MRI
CAConrad

What She Read
Eileen Myles

Money
Chris Kraus

The Incinerator
Juliana Spahr

Writing Between Distant Others
Stan Apps

link | 08-28-10

Scalapinos's new book

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:31:31 -0700

The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom
Leslie Scalapino

The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom is an ekphrastic implosion inside our severed human-body/animal-mind. "Memory isn't the origin of events," Scalapino writes early in this magisterial work, which restores the synthesis of events to its place as meanings' origin. The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom -- as much a work of grotesque science fiction as a poem -- cracks open the imaginary reality astride reality. In the stadium of its visionary composition, the everyday floats vivid strange: in time, as time, with time, beside time.

link | 08-27-10

Lost in the West Edomonton Mall, from Geist

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:57:37 -0700

Geist 77 Summer 2010

Charles Bernstein
a poem presented at the In(ter)ventions conference in Banff, February 2010
and first published in West Coast LINE.

You Never Looked So Simulating

The next stop was Edmonton
where I got lost in the Fantasyland
Mall on the way to one of the demi–
keynotes at the International Association
for Philosophy and Literature
“Thinking Between Poetry &
Philosophy” convention & so missed
most of the lecture on the “The Ineluctable
Split of Poetry’s Unsayable Name: Reading
Derrida through Nietzsche’s Unknowable
Answer to Celan’s Joyce (A Response to
Benjamin).” Many of the conventioneers
noted that the “Bourbon Street” food
mall was a perfect example of “simulation” —
a view I have trouble understanding
(not unusual for me)
since the patrons of the food court
seem to enjoy the fact that
“Bourbon Street” is ineluctably in
the West Edmonton Mall & the designers
of the street seemed to go
out of their way to emphasize this fact,
making it look like a plaster cast
sketch of a picture of a New Orleans street
& not like the “real thing” at
all; the only ones fooled were
we conventioneers having our
dinner as we chatted about the
breakdown of reality and simulacra
(or simusoy for the lactose
intolerant). & talk about authentically
local as you might, the Buffalo
wings on Bourbon Street
in the West Edmonton Mall
never tasted so real
or would have. I had trout.

link | 08-23-10

Fall Capilano Review

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:31:32 -0700

The Capilano Review
Issue 3.12 (Fall 2010)
will be on the newsstands and in your mailbox in October: it features an interview with American poet and artist duo, Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee, about their early-career sojourn in British Columbia in the 1970s. Their BC history will be surprising to many readers. We will also feature art work by Susan Bee and poems by Bernstein, all produced in Ruskin, BC in 1973. The issue will also include new work by Nicole Brossard, Erìn Moure, and Meredith Quartermain plus several new writers: Colin Brown, A. Di Nardo, Cara Kauhane, and others. Subscribe if you haven’t yet: www.thecapilanoreview.ca

Leigh Davis Flag Poems, UK poetry site, Ken Edwards

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:32:57 -0700

Modern Poetry
(key intro site for innovative UK poetry)

Ken Edwards interview

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Time, Text & Echoes
Leigh Davis Flag Poems
(New Zealand)

link | 08-19-10

Tan Lin video portrait

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:29:10 -0700

Tan Lin

Go to blog page to see streaming video; links below are corrected!

Ambient Tan
We met a new Japanese yogurt spot on West 32nd and then over to a Korean place just East of Fifth. The place was empty and we chatted away the afternoon.
August 1, 2007
(mp4, 50 seconds, 37.2 mb)

Video Portraits Galleries
Portraits page 1
Portraits page 2
Portraits page 3
Portraits page 4
Portraits page 5
Portraits page 6

link | 08-17-10

Foeman, Zorn, Hills Astronome

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:29:40 -0700

Astronome: A Night at the Opera

Production: Richard Foreman
Music: John Zorn
Video: Henry Hills
Tzadik

Using two HD video cameras, Henry Hills recorded 10 full live performances of this 2009 Zorn-Foreman collaboration, weaving together thousands of Foreman tableaux to create this exquisite mosaic. As Hills notes in the liner notes to the DVD, each shot represents the frame choice a viewer makes when confronted with the visual panorama that Foreman provides; you can never take in the whole, so go from discrete view to discrete view. (The choice of camera and the constraint of live performances precluded any long shots of the piece.) This is the greatest resource available to see the set-piece details of Foreman’s theater: concrete particulars woven together with dazzling precision. On the same DVD is Hill’s King Richard, from Emma’s Dilemma. Interwoven with a disarming and charming Foreman interview by 12-year-old Emma Bee Bernstein. Hills has created his own magical interpretation of the Foreman experience: his repeats, overlays, and swoops give a visceral sense of this theater. (King Richard is also available on PennSound, but the image quality on the DVD is far superior.)

link | 08-15-10-Astronome

Messerli on Sutzkever, Yinglish by Thomas Fink, Stein & Wellman plays on line, Wreading performance anthology

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:51:58 -0700

Douglas Messerli's
new blog
includes scripts from Mac Wellman (Bad Penny), Alfred Kreymborg, Synge (and Barnes on Synge),
Ronald Tavel's Hedi Lamar, Stein's What Happened
and one of Messerli's own plays and his commentaries.

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(W)reading Performance Writing
ed. Rachel Lois Clapham

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"Abraham Sutzkever—who died early this year on January 20th at the age of 96—was, as The New York Times obituary mentioned, one of "the great Yiddish poets of his generation." But to describe him in only that way is to miss much of his larger contribution to literary history. ..."
On Abraham Sutzkever
Douglas Messerli
new@Sybil

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Yinglish Strophes 1-19
Thomas Fink

Truck Books
is an elegant and inventive new press:
beautifully designed books you can buy (at sliding scale) or download.

One of the first:
Fink is an ideolectical poet with a twist: he uses Yiddish syntax and, in performance, intonation and accent, in his marvellous “Yinglish” poems –
“We’ll have snow April. Did
you ever have here April snow?”

link | 08-15-10

Yunte Hunang in NY Times, Grenier on Creeley, UDP news

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:48:39 -0700

Robert Grenier
A TESTAMENT
(Martin Richet / Robert Creeley, “Figure of Outward”)
new@Sybil

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Yunte Huang in tomorrow's The New York Times

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link | 08-10-10

Video Portrait of Elizabeth Willis

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:01:29 -0700

Elizabeth Willis

Go to blog page to see stream of this video to see this player.

Versions of Winter
Liz grew up in Northern Wisconsin and spent many years in Buffalo (where she got her PhD), before moving to Western Massachusetts. She and Peter came by my apartment one afternoon and I shined a light on her and asked her about the seasons.
June 4, 2007
(mp4, 32 sec., 7.4 mb)

link | 08-09-10

John Wieners EPC page

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:13:41 -0700

John Wieners EPC page

Poems selected by CA Conrad
Edited & designed by Jack Krick

The EPC extends its warm thanks to Bill Corbett, Penelope Creeley, Jim Dunn, Raymond Foye, Jack Kimball and James Maynard for their invaluable assistance.

link | 08-07-10

4 early Scalapino books complete PDFs

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:37:19 -0700

Leslie Scalapino
early books

O and other poems
(Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1976)
(pdf of complete book)

The Woman Who Could Read the Minds of Dogs
(Berkeley: Sand-Dollar,1976
(pdf of complete book)

This eating and walking at the same time is associated all right
(Bolinas: Tombouctou, 1979)
(pdf of complete book)

Instead of an Animal, drawings by Scalapino's sister Diane Sophia
(Cloud Marauder Press, 1978)
(pdf of complete book)

N.B. the latter three titles are collected in Considering How Exaggerated Music Is (North Point, 1982) : available from SPD

link | 07-31-10

Yunte Huang's Charile Chan

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:13:15 -0700

Yunte Huang's Charlie Chan like Danny Kaye's duck:
swan in soup.

Yunte Huang’s book is a tribute to Charlie Chan as a key figure at the heart of what makes American culture most vibrant – cross-cultural miscegenation. While the book offers fascinating details on the “real” Charlie Chan versus his book and move incarnations, it also includes a detailed history of anti-Chinese racism in the U.S., from lynching to yellowface. Yuang’s ever-fascinating book overlays cultural studies, film history, poetics, and autobiography to make an enormously entertaining and edifying, but also disturbing study. Huang’s style moves from a hilarious pastiche and exquisitely subtle ventriloquism of Chanisms – Chan’s pataqueerical aphorisms are at the heart of the study – to shocking stories of violence against Chinese immigrants. In Charlie Chan Huang offers a a compelling paradigm for Asian-American and ethnic studies.

This weeks' New Yorker provides a good summary of part of the book.
(New Yorker placement like pig 'n' blanket at Bar Mitzvah: all beef.)

Susan Schultz provides a more subtle reading.
(and she provides the photo above.)

link | 08-06-10-Chan