[New-Poetry] 60 seconds of Charles Bernstein

[JforJames at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/1/2007 4:28:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
Opus40-01 at opus40.org writes:

Good  punch line on Bernstein's. Better than that jazz and blues  guy


Yes, I thought it was well executed performance piece. Interesting, since  we 
were kicking around language poetry, I often observed how much of  the 
'prosody' of language poetry involves the negative: Poetry  that is asyntatic, 
non-narrative, non-linear or discontinuos, lacking  closure, etc. True to form, his 
performance poem manifesto is completely  phrased in the negative except for 
the last line, which seems to  invoke the great Borscht Belt comics' mantra of 
'a joke is all in the  timing'. 
Finnegan



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