[New-Poetry] 60 seconds of Charles Bernstein

[Anny Ballardini]

I agree with the timing, agree with the idea, agree with so many things, but then, I find this performance quite cold and detached, dunno.. I had already seen it somewhere before.
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  Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 10:51 PM
  Subject: [New-Poetry] 60 seconds of Charles Bernstein


  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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