Renaissance Society (Venue Partner)
The University of Chicago, Cobb Hall, 4th floor
5811 South Ellis Avenue, room 418
773 702 8670
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Sunday Feb 14, 2010 (2pm)
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Directions: Green Line - Direction: Ashland / 63, to Garfield Station. X55 - Garfield Express - Direction: Museum of Science & Industry, to Ellis Avenue stop. Walk to 5811 South Ellis Avenue.
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Charles Bernstein: Poetry Reading
Feb 14, 2010, 2 pm
Highly esteemed poet, professor, and literary scholar Charles Bernstein will do a reading dedicated to his daughter Emma. The reading coincides with the release of All the Whiskey in Heaven, a “best of” Bernstein’s work from the past thirty years. Bernstein explores how language both limits and liberates thought, modulating the comic and the dark structural invention with buoyant soundplay. These challenging works give way to poems of lyric excess and striking emotional range. In addition, the reading will celebrate the recent release of Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture, a collection of essays in which poets and critics, Bernstein among them, address the question of what constitutes radical poetry written by Jews defined as 'secular', and whether or not there is a Jewish component or dimension to radical and modernist poetic practice in general. Their responses reflect a rich sense of how being Jewish influences their aesthetics and practices, and how the tradition of the avant-garde informs their identities as Jews. The reading will be followed by a discussion and reception.
