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 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

 

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