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Would anyone like to pitch a review of Elisabeth Anker’s Ugly Freedoms? email boundary2@pitt.edu.
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She is an excellent translator. Looking forward to this!
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Coming soon, a landmark collection of Italo Calvino’s essays, interviews and letters, available for the first time in English, translated by Ann Goldstein.
The Written World and the Unwritten World, out January 12th: ow.ly/syI650M9k5t
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Congratulations, Will Alexander! This review should garner your work a bevy of new readers.
Will Alexander’s Epics of the Surreal
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‘since there is no possibility, there’s play’
quotes Kathy Acker's Great Expectations in an essay on 's Philosophy for Spiders
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Let me pretend I'm on Twitter for a sec to share a link to my recent article in , "A Poetics of Thingification: Dawn Lundy Martin and the Black Took Collective" read-dukeupress-edu.proxy1.cl.msu.edu/boundary-2/art
Big thanks to
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Audio/video of my trip to Milan, Rome, Naples, and Catania for Eco/Echo -- bilingual selection of poems edited by Carla Buranello & w/ tr. , Graffi, Bortolotti, Ballerini.
jacket2.org/commentary/eco
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AbFab bilingual US poets w/ Russian tr. (many in exile) fm new anthology, 4 hrs.: eds. Probstein/Feshchenko w/ Howe, Mackey, Andrews, Mullen, Gizzi, Rothenberg, Palmer, Padgett, Silliman, Hejinian, Waldrop, Messerli, DuPlessis, Perelman ++ +tr.: youtube.com/watch?v=7RSGpq
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MoMA Mia: Amit Chaudhuri & me at MoMA: I talk about the museum's way of framing modern art. Chaudhuri deepens and enriches my attempts to get outside the "Western Box" (as Olson called it ) when looking at some of my favorite works of art. youtube.com/watch?v=rxZ7xQ
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Poem-A-Day, Poem-A-Day, Jiggety Zam: The Academy of American Poets Keeps Poetry Safe from Poetry -- new
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GOP lawmakers celebrate right-wing candidate’s win in Italian elections.
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Tmrw is Berlin LitFest's worldwide reading of Salman Rushdie. Watch Pierre Joris talk about the attack on Rushdie w/ my intro; we then both read from Satanic Verses. Joris's essay in in this month's . jacket2.org/Rushdie
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Congratulations to , whose book "The Government of Beans" has won the Rachel Carson Prize from and to , whose book "Pollution Is Colonialism" received honorable mention!
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This excerpt, put together by an editor from various sections of Sojourn, is out in : harpers.org/archive/2022/1
It’s behind a paywall. I bought a copy yesterday from Grand Central Station and am sharing photos of the pages.
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Patterns/Contexts/Time: A Symposium on Contemporary Poetry, ed. Phillip Foss & me in Tyuonyi (Sante Fe, 1990), 128pp. Ninety-seven poets from the United States, Canada, New Zealand, England. Free pdf: jacket2.org/tyuonyi
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In case you missed last night's talk btw @AmitChaudhuri and @ChrlesBernstein, not to worry it was recorded for @PennSound @jacket2mag
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Fascinating talk. When you hear/read "nothing happens in the book", interrogate.
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"The world is half-night," Peter Straub once wrote, but it seems all night now. Peter died Sunday. The world I've known is less. His work lives on, but it's not enough and still more than enough.
1943-2022.
#PeterStraub
image: Peter at my Penn class in 2004
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Congratulations to #PBKBookAwards finalist "Love's Shadow" by Paul A. Bové ()! pbk.org/2022ShortList
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In late April, I gave a reading at the Poetic Research Bureau, in their abfab new space in LA. Highlight was a conversation with Johanna Drucker after the reading. The reading and conversation have just been posted. jacket2.org/bernstein-druc
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folks around these parts, here is a day to mark on calendars. Thanks to Amy Catanzaro for bringing this to my attention.
#poetry
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What's happening is some interesting conversation with two very cool young novelists.
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Geoffrey Young, David Grubin, & Charles Bernstein
Reading at TurnPark, W. Stockbridge, Mass
Friday, August 19, 5:30pm (doors open at 5)
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LI Zhimin and Daniel Braun — The Linking Matters: An International Poetics of Sense-Making and Innovation. Very glad to see this essay by Zhimin Li, written after the boundary 2 issue on my work <jacket2.org/commentary/ber>: boundary2.org/2022/08/li-zhi via @boundary 2
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I wrote about 's proposal to read Acker as philosophy and Acker's interest in stupidity and sex as ways of asking philosophical questions. I also try to think about how Acker's reception today is informed by her theoretical appeal
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It’s real.
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boundary 2 mourns the loss of a dear colleague, a close friend, and a generous imagination. An original writer of courage and resistance.
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"Teaching Is Listening": a short video talk for Guangzhou University:
jacket2.org/commentary/tea
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Against hundreds of years of congressional action, against solid #SCOTUS precedent, and hundreds of years of history, the Supreme Court held today that states have jurisdiction over certain crimes in Indian Country by judicial fiat. A devastating result for our democracy.
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My book has just been graced with a cover.
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Minh-Ha Pham's () new book "Why We Can′t Have Nice Things" examines how critical social media monitoring of knock-off fashion is to global fashion's development. Read the free intro on our website! #Fashion #MediaStudies #Globalization ow.ly/kVLk50Jy91W
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Richard Rodríguez's () new book "A Kiss Across the Ocean" examines the relationship between British post-punk musicians and their Latinx audiences in the US. Read the free intro on our website now! #Music #LatinxStudies #AmericanStudies ow.ly/7n1550Jy8Rq
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2022 boundary 2 Annual Conference-50th Anniversary Meeting Videos Available Now boundary2.org/?p=8279 via @boundary 2
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