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Now Available: The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein, Edited by William Allegrezza

Publication Date: 25-Sep-12 | ISBN: 9781844714858 | Trim Size: 228 x 152 mm | Extent: 388pp | Format: Paperback / softback

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“What we have here is the ideal Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Charles Bernstein: the coverage is wide, & all you need is “to be ready, not prepared.” You will not be asked to lounge on the couch as nobody remembers its colors, but the essays come in all colors, except sad. Enjoy, & then get back to the poems.” —Pierre Joris

“A major poet for our time — & then some – Charles Bernstein has emerged as a principal voice –maybe the best we have – for an international avant-garde now in its second century of visions & revisions. It is in celebration of this that the Salt Companion to his work appears here, to show him in a trajectory from an American-centered language poetry in the 1970s to an active & significant relation to a constantly renewing & expanding global poetry in which his singularity has played a vital role. What becomes clear in these pages is how his generosity of mind & spirit continues to enrich us all.” —Jerome Rothenberg

Introduction
William Allegrezza

Charles Bernstein Or An Insistence To Communicate
Caroline Bergvall

Either You’re With Us And Against Us: Charles Bernstein’s
Girly Man, 9–11, And The Brechtian Figure Of The Reader
Tim Peterson

The Cave Children Of New York Are Never Free
Miekal And

The Metaphysical Mouth And The Asylum Of The Everyday: Charles
Bernstein And Contemporary Continental Philosophy Of Language
Michael Eng

“Gazoop” Replaces “Is/Are” “In A Restless
World Like This Gazoop Gazoop”
Madeline Gins

Girly Men Ballads: (Il)Legible Identities In
Charles Bernstein And Gertrude Stein
Kimberly Lamm

That Poem For Charles Bernstein
Lars Palm

“Spectres Of Benjamin”: (Re)Presentation And (Re)
Semblance In Charles Bernstein’s Shadowtime
Steven Salmoni

What As Poetic
Steve Mccaffery

Taking On The Official Voice: Charles Bernstein’s Poetic
Sophistry And Post-Process Writing Pedagogy
Megan Swihart Jewell

From The Alphabet
Ron Silliman

Beyond The Valley Of The Sophist: Charles
Bernstein, Irony, And Solidarity
Paul Stephens

Poem For Charles
Ray Craig

To Think Figuratively, Tropically: Charles Bernstein’s Post-9/11
Grammar And Pragmatist Lessons In The Age Of Baudrillard
Jason Lagapa

Charles Bernstein’s Anti-Suburban Poetry
Peter Monacell

Some Nouns
Donald Wellman

From A Philosophy Of Poetry To Poetry As Philosophy:
The Dialectical Poetics Of Charles Bernstein
Carlos Gallego

Content’s Profusion: Noise, Interruption And Reverse
Peristalsis In The Poetics Of Charles Bernstein
Michael Angelo Tata

Charles Bernstein In Buffalo 1999–2004
Kristen Gallagher

Charles Bernstein’s Catalogue Poetry
Thomas Fink

Readdressing Constructivism And Conceptual
Art:Aspects Of Work Factured By Charles Bernstein
Allen Fisher

Circles From Which
Maggie O’sullivan

Visual Strategies: A Line, A Verse, Something On Paper
James Shivers

After Residual Rubbernecking (A Speculative Non-Serial Anti-Romance)
Erica Hunt

A Life, Spliced: On The Early Tapeworks Of Charles Bernstein
Michael S. Hennessey

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cover photo by Emma Bee Bernstein

Pattern Variants at AC Institute: Nine Poets and OuLiPo and You

Directed by Buzz Evers

In collaboration with:

Marcella Durand, Paolo Javier, Joanna Fuhrman, Vincent Katz, Anselm Berrigan, Tim Trace Peterson, Adeena Karasick, Jena Osman, Lee Ann Brown

and

Daniel Levin Becker/Writer
Roman Muradov/Illustrator
Max Giteck Duykers/Composer

May 3-May 26, 2012

Writing Installation:
May 24, 10am-1pm
May 25, 6pm-9pm
May 26, 10am-1pm

All exhibitions are free and open to the public.

Contact: [email protected]

Pattern Variants explores the confluences found within the arts and sciences by harnessing the fundamental principles within poetic form: music, mathematics, and the creative processes of discovery and innovation. Developed as a demonstration project addressing the operating principles of creative exchange surrounding its parent project, Verse in the Circle of Fifths, Pattern Variants offers a menu of collaborative ventures across the visual, performing, and language arts while centered on an in-situ writing experiment grounded in the traditions of linked verse and the constraint driven propensities of the OuLiPo group of poets and writers.

This writing process itself serves as protagonist with the poets converging in strategic word play immersed in the poetics of imaging, game theory and linked verse. Executed over three days (May 24-26), in three hour sessions, the writing exercise brings together nine landmarks chosen by our nine poets, including Harryette Mullen's Muse & Drudge; The Puppet; The Chrysler Building; The Book of Formation; The Hays Code; Moveable Type; New French Feminism; "Sayings Of the High One" from The Poetic Edda; & Breton's 'L'amour fou'.

Charted over nine rotations and composed under the influence of Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium: Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity, and Consistency, coupled with our two additional memos, Symmetry and Obscurity, Pattern Variants sets in motion an experiment in creative writing with the liberating uses of form as the catalyst for enabling creative discourse. The writing installation also features our sound design in identifying particular patterns found within the writing schematic added with an undercurrent of percussive vowels in building resonance. The exhibition also features another collaboration involving a series of 3x3 combinative flash fiction grids illustrating our eight memos.

Buzz Evers is an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator, arts administrator, director, and producer. He attended Pitzer College receiving a degree in organizational studies and gravitated toward the arts based on his interest in collaboration and the creative process. His diverse list of experiences include works in the visual, performing, and language arts.

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New York, NY 10001
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat: 1-6pm, Thurs: 1-8pm
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Reforesting: An Homage to Gil Ott (& release party for Ott collected works, vol 1)

Eli Goldblatt writes:

Join us in February for Reforesting: An Homage to Gil Ott at the Painted Bride Art Center, opening February 3rd.

This is a culmination of years of collaboration with Julia Blumenreich in homage to our friend, the poet Gil Ott, who died in 2004.

You’ll find it surprising, delightful & in all ways a rich experience. We’ll have a book release party for the first volume of Gil’s collected work—A Defined Anarchy: vol 1, Poetry and Fiction (edited by Tim Trace Peterson & Gregory Laynor, published by Chax Press)--on Sunday, February 26 at the Bride.

More information about the event here.