The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Trisha Low
Trisha Low discusses her new book-length essay, SOCIALIST REALISM.
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...moreA crucial part of what makes experimental writing fresh is the way sight works with what is said, whether the material is performed or read in silence.
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...moreBarbara Berman offers suggestions for your poetry and poetics holiday gift-giving needs.
...moreWhat are we trying to signal to potential readers when we call a work or its author “avant-garde?” The term is lately used to foreground a studied and even exclusionary difficulty in the writing, but what about its potential as a vector for the strange and the playful, a pushback against the normal and a […]
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...moreSean Singer reviews Charles Bernstein’s Recalculating today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreI’m glad to see Joshua Weiner wrestle so diligently and forthrightly with Charles Bernstein’s Attack of the Difficult Poems over on The Los Angeles Review. His review deserves attention, and I hope it sparks discussion. The trolling below his review in the comments section, however, so far, is typically wan. Weiner admires Bernstein’s general argument […]
...moreOne awesome thing about Rumpus Books is that we’ve got tons of original author interviews and book reviews and other miscellany we publish each week. One awesome thing about Sundays is that we put it all in one place for you to catch up.
...moreIn short, [Charles] Bernstein is taking apart the structures of conventional poetry, and more generally of the language we use every day – and which in turn uses us – in order to return us to a more basic relationship with language itself, and with the social relations which language encodes and enforces.
...moreCharles Bernstein tells us that the University of Alabama Press is having a recession sale on many of the titles in their Modern and Contemporary Poetics series. (Via Culture Industry) Peerscribe describes itself as a social network by writers, for writers. I haven’t had a chance to look at it in any depth yet, so […]
...moreBlogging in the poetry world tends to slow in the summer months in my experience, but we’re not quite there yet, so there’s plenty of bloggy goodness from this week. Here’s a taste. Charles Bernstein asks if art criticism is fifty years behind poetry. Mark Scroggins revels in A. O. Scott’s takedown of “Angels and […]
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