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.
Charles Bernstein, Susan Bee, Ton van ’t Hof, Samuel Vriezen, and Jane Lewty at Perdu, Amsterdam (audio)
Perdu, Amsterdam, May 6, 2015
1. Introductions by Obe Alkema and Jane Lewty; "Truth in Pudding" read by Bernstein and Samuel Vriezen in aternating stanzas (English stanzas not read in Dutch, Dutch translatons not read in English) (34:17): MP3
2. Susan Bee slide presentation (audio only) : (21:17): MP3
3. Bernstein and Ton van ’t Hof, "Recalculating," alternating stanzas; "Unready, Unwilling, Unable" in English, followed by Sarah Posman's tr. read by Obe Alkema; "Transegmental Drifts" in English and three translations: (40:40): MP3
4. Discussion with Bee and Bernstein, moderated by Jane Lewty (36:22): MP3