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.
Runa Bandyopadhyay has translated into Bengali, with extended, performative commentary, my essay “The Pataquerical Imperative: Midrashic Antinomianism and the Promise of Bent Studies.” from Pitch of Poetry: “Patquerical Nightshow” in Ongshumali (W. Bengal / Berlin): Bengali: part one; part two; part three;part four, part five, part six English: one, two, three, four, five, six
More recently, Bandyopadhyay has written, in English, a response to my poem “Twelve-Year Horoscope” (a poem that will be included in Topsy-Turvy): "On/extending “Twelve-Year Universal Horoscope”:Sybil(2020) She has also written a review of Topsy-Turvy at Sybli (2021)
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.