Danielle LaFrance

Empathy under late capitalism

PennSound podcast #71

Levi Bentley, Ted Rees, and Danielle LaFrance met in the Wexler Studio in November 2019 to discuss LaFrance’s books Just Like I Like It and Friendly + Fire as a part of the Housework series.

November 4, 2020

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Topsy-Turvy

Charles Bernstein

from University of Chicago Press
176 pages, paper, ebook, and audiobook

Upcoming: boundary 2 launch, moderated by Paul Bové, with Yunte Huang (US), Abigal Lang (France), and Runa Bandyopadhyay (India). 4pm EST, June 15: registration here.

••Rain Taxi video launch with Tonya Foster, orignally broadcast May 18: YouTube
••With Chris Funkhauser at Poet Ray’d Yo, WQXC, radio, archive of April 22 broadcast (60 min)
••SemCoop / By the Book video launch with Craig Dworkin, April 29 (YouTube)
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••Jeremy Sigler, “The Yid and Yang of of Poet Charles Bernstein,” Tablet (April 26, 2021)
••Thomas Fink in conversation with Charles Bernstein on Topsy-Turvy at Dichtung Yammer.
••Jefferson Hanson, “Tribute to the Critic of Tone Jam: Remarks Off Bernstein’s Topsy-Turvy,” Altered States
••Paul Bove on “Echologs” at Harvard Univ. Press blog

The Bookseller: “Not set out to be a book about the pandemic, this rowdy collection of poems, performances and translations nevertheless speaks volumes about the upside-down world we have all found ourselves living in.”

In his most expansive and unruly collection to date, the acclaimed poet Charles Bernstein gathers poems, both tiny and grand, that speak to a world turned upside down. Our time of “covidity,” as Bernstein calls it in one of the book’s most poignantly disarming works, is characterized in equal measure by the turbulence of both the body politic and the individual. Likewise, in Topsy-Turvy, novel and traditional forms jostle against one another: horoscopes, shanties, and elegies rub up against gags, pastorals, and feints; translations, songs, screenplays, and slapstick tangle deftly with commentaries, conundrums, psalms, and prayers.

Vladimir Feschenko: Charles Bernstein’s Experimental Semiotics

Language Poetry between Russian and American Traditions

Charles Bernstein

The new issue of NLO (New Literary Review, Russia, 168:2, 2021) feature a section on American poetry edited edited by Vladimir Feschenko. Two of the essays, both machine translated, with some modification, are published here. Please consult the Russian original for accuracy.

Jerome Rothenberg and Sadie Rothenberg

THE SHADOW OF A MAD KING (1-7)

Jerome Rothenberg

Poems & Images

a work in progress

(1)

summoning the sacred voice

of Shelley