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So your work with O'Hara as opposed to Emma as alter-ego? Just my two cents! Cheers, Luke On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 02:40, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I liked the idea of a "parody" of confessionalism... > > > Felix’s poem seems to fit more with the idea of an experimental > confessionalism that is raw, confrontational and performative, but also > aware of the shortcomings of its own premises. > > I don't know Felix Bernstein's work, though one could be drawn to things > that don't make sense, like the death of a sister. I suppose, from the > snippets you quote, that it is what you say it is, raw, performative. I > suppose that those quotes seem to work "premised" on something more > distancing than Charles', of e.g. Freud, So: > > >> I think of Emma climbing the icy rocks of our imagined world and taking > a fatal misstep > > seems more lived through. This is not me trying to detract from anyone's > work, but I feel that *one has to "confront" the reader at least as much > as oneself*? > > Cheers, > Luke > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 02:20, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Dear Hazel, >> Thank you for the reply! That was good of you, I'll read later. >> Cheers, >> Luke >> >> On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 01:11, Hazel Smith < >> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Luke >>> >>> >>> >>> I have written an essay “Experimental Confessionalism: The Personal Turn >>> in American Post-Conceptual Poetry” in Cordite: >>> http://cordite.org.au/essays/experimental-confessionalism/ . It was >>> published last year. >>> >>> All best >>> >>> Hazel >>> >>> >>> >>> Hazel Smith Adjunct Professor >>> Writing and Society Research Centre >>> Western Sydney University >>> email: [log in to unmask] >>> >>> >>> See also my webpage at www.australysis.com >>> >>> Recent publications include: >>> Word Migrants, Giramondo Publishing, 2016, >>> http://www.giramondopublishing.com/poetry/word-migrants/ >>> The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship: intermedia, voice, >>> technology.cross-cultural exchange, Routledge, 2016, >>> https://www.routledge.com/The-Contemporary-Literature-Music-Relationship-Intermedia-Voice-Technology/Smith/p/book/9781138852051 >>> >>> and with Will Luers and Roger Dean, novelling, 2016, >>> http://novelling.newbinarypress.com/ shortlisted for the European Union >>> Turn on Literature prize 2017 and winner of the 2018 Electronic Literature >>> Organisation Robert Coover prize. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> *From: *British & Irish poets <[log in to unmask]> on >>> behalf of Luke <[log in to unmask]> >>> *Reply-To: *British & Irish poets <[log in to unmask]> >>> *Date: *Thursday, 28 February 2019 at 6:37 am >>> *To: *"[log in to unmask]" < >>> [log in to unmask]> >>> *Subject: *Re: Post conceptual poetry >>> >>> >>> >>> To get laid? >>> >>> Good stuff, >>> >>> Luke >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 at 10:20, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>> I googled this phrase, and found a book by a (literal) son >>> <https://www.thecapilanoreview.ca/felix-bernsteins-post-conceptual-integrity/> >>> of Charles Bernstein. I was strangely psyched by the writing, quotes. They >>> seemed to offer little, be acutely observant, and be annoyingly rushed, at >>> once. >>> >>> Does anyone want to talk about this book (which I have no read) or the >>> subject title, at all? >>> >>> Luke >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following >>> link: >>> >>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1 >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following >>> link: >>> >>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1 >>> >> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1