homophonic translation

'Doubletalking the Homophonic Sublime: Comedy, Appropriation, and the Sounds of One Hand Clapping'

New from Station Hill Press: Doubletalking the Homophonic Sublime: Comedy, Appropriation, and the Sounds of One Hand Clapping. 80pp.

You can order the book from SPD or Bridge Street Books at Bookshop.org (and also from other online book sellers)

Sound / Writing: essays on homophonic translation

Charles Bernstein

Sound /Writing:
traduire-écrire le son et le sens
homophonic translation — traducson — Oberflächenübersetzung
edited by Vincent Broqua and Dirk Weissmann / 356 pp.
is just out from Editions des Archives Contemporaines
OPEN ACCESS
Print edition available soon; I will post information here when I have it.

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Topsy-Turvy

Charles Bernstein

Please buy the book directly from the publisher, University of Chicago Press, or a local bookstore, including Bridge Street Books, SemCoop, Talking Leaves, Indiebound, McNally-Jackson, and Bookshop.Org.

176 pages, paper and ebook. Audiobook is from Chicago and Amazon/Aubible.

Teaching Is Listening

on teaching poetry for Guanzhou University

Charles Bernstein

I made this short video for a conference on teaching English language poetry, sponsored by Guangzhou University, July 2, 2022. Li Zhimin has created an online course, partly based on Al Filreis's ModPo. This meeting is an extension of that course. In the video, I mention the Poem Profiler and Wreading Experiments; for more on this topic, see Attack of the Difficult Poems.

Lyric shard as grief's material

A review of Diana Khoi Nguyen's 'Ghost Of'

Kelly Hoffer

Part archive, part elegy, Diana Khoi Nguyen’s debut collection of poetry, Ghost Of, presents the haunting portrait of a grieving family set against a backdrop of intergenerational trauma. Written four years after the poet’s brother took his own life, Nguyen’s poems register this loss as it is refracted through the story of her parents’ immigration to the US as refugees in the wake of the Vietnam War.