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 misstepseems 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,LukeDear Hazel,Thank you for the reply! That was good of you, I'll read later.Cheers,LukeHi 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
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See also my webpage at www.australysis.comRecent 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/9781138852051and 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.
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Date: Thursday, 28 February 2019 at 6:37 am
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Subject: Re: Post conceptual poetry
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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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