Life keeps hurtling forward, bursting forth. It’s spring in California, the jasmine’s come in and the streaky roses. It’s been raining hard all morning; just now it stopped abruptly. Lyn writes in My Life, “she observed that detail minutely, as if it were botanical. As if words could unite an ardent intellect with the external material world.” This is Lyn, vitally observing, drawing it all into relation, the mind and the world, botanical, passionate. Making words hold life, making words as life. “Such that art is inseparable from the search for reality,” she writes.
Pataquerical Ballad, with Runa Bandyopadhyay
Pataquerical Ballad by Runa Bandyopadhyay and Charles Bernstein. A two-volume set, one in English and one in Bengali. The English consists of Bandyopadhyay's performative commentary and set of inventive "fits" responding from and extending Bernstein's "The Pataquerical Imagination: Midrashic Antinomianism and the Promise of Bent Studies" in Pitch of Poetry, along with the original essay. The Bengali volume also includes Bandyopadhyay's essay and a translation of the "The Pataquerical Imagination.