Charles Bernstein and Paolo Javier Read From their Poems at The Artist's Institute, 1/7
By: Max Schwager Jan. 02, 2012
Let's read some poems, hear some poems, and act within some poems. Charles Bernstein and Paolo Javier read from their past and recent work on January 7th, 2012.
For Gertrude Stein, words constitute moments in time that are meant to be experienced, not named and understood. She disconnects English from its own authority, from its own memory, and from its own dictionary. She uses language as aural bits of tangible time that are always in a state of activity-always in a continuous present.
For the poets Charles Bernstein (b. 1950) and Paolo Javier (b. 1974), words are also things we can touch, effect, distort, and replenish. They think of language as a social medium, and their work moves in and out of English and Englishes."There's nothing up my sleevelessness," said Charles Bernstein.
"I go line dancing on parables," said Paolo Javier.
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"I go line dancing on parables," said Paolo Javier.
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