...,” absorptive reading environments aim to dampen the shocks associated with both modernist fractures and postmodern counter-absorptive verse, canceling themselves out as they release the reader/spectator into a state of distraction. However, their reception by a reader trained to forge connections and to follow...

... . From the first, Bernstein emphasized the idea that poetry is not the expression of feeling but a constructivist art in which language is taken out of its normal context and recharged. In “Artifice of Absorption,” Bernstein insists that the poet uses all the tools at his command to create a new kind...

.... The discussion ends with Bernstein's then new poem, written for John Ashbery on the day he died. In Artifice of Absorption, you talk about anti-absorptive poetry. Currently, what techniques and/or verbal devises, according to this poetics, are capable of producing those same powerful effects...

... metaphysics language It's never comforting to open a new title by Charles Bernstein. This is, of course, by design. In one of his most celebrated essays, “The Artifice of Absorption” (1987), Bernstein writes that the “artifice” of the title is “a measure of a poem's / intractability to being read...

... on poetics in “Artifice of Absorption” (1987), which takes the form of a highly self-reflexive prose poem. Alongside numerous canonical literary voices and theorists, “Artifice of Absorption” also discusses key concepts of somewhat neglected thinkers, such as Valentin N. Voloshinov and Veronica Forrest...

... was it transformative? I am especially happy that Parshchikov translated my poem/essay “Artifice of Absorption.” Other translations are coming in the New Literary Observer , many done by my friend, the great Ian Probstein, who also published translations in Okno , Zhurnal POetov , and Innostrannya Literatura...

... stated the aim of his project—to address the primal need of the Negro, that being the ‘‘absorption of civilization 5 Within two weeks, on 18 December, Crummell organized a meeting in Cromwell’s library, which Hayson, Miller...

... a very different, and indeed more montage/disjunctive feel for the poetry.” 9. Please refer to Bernstein's “Artifice of Absorption,” in A Poetics ( 1992 ). The Chinese version is included in Language Poetics , trans. Luo Lianggong (Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2013). 8. See...

... to a subway station manager, and “This Line.” My Way: Speeches and Poems is the title of the work. In 1987, he published the essay “Artifice of Absorption,” considered a manifesto of Language poetry. His book of poems The Sophist , from the same year, includes some of his main poetic works...

... in nuances.18 It is a state in which disappearance and actualization are one. Learning from the Colors of Fantasy Benjamin powerfully evokes the absorption in transient colors in his dialogue entitled “The Rainbow,” as well as in fragments on the place of 17. To further single out...

... of value, his absorption, or “disappearance,” is both architectural and biopolitical (C. Hong 2020 : 35). Geun-sae performs a defining feature of settler colonial capitalism as described by Iyko Day ( 2016 : 62), where the historical alignment of Asian bodies with capitalism's negative dimensions has...

... and Postmodernism poetry [Charles Bernstein’s “Artifice of Absorption satire [Benjamin Friedlan- der’s “The Anti-Hegemony Project captivity narrative [Susan Howe’s My Emily Dickinson], dialogue [Jerome McGann’s “A Dialogue on Dialogue and autobiography [Jane Tompkins’s “Me and My Shadow to name just...

... conclusion, from a presupposition (Nature) to a position (Mastery, Will, Liberty), to self-absorption (Servitude, Subjectivity) and nihilation (Knowingly serving the fake source of Mastery as one's freedom). For La Boétie what is betrayed and left behind by the assumption of voluntary servitude...

... is born “sheer” but everywhere in frames. “The formal properties take on extraformal content.” Because of its unacknowledged absorption of romantic ideology, the idealization of one frame, that of “an object held in common as a structure of meanings,” negates the deregulating power of rhetoric...

... and reproduction of the form of a subject that would be, with respect to itself, proper, a being that, simply itself a subject that is becomes a locus for the absorption and containment of sociality.9 It was Marx who taught us this: philology, as it extends itself everywhere, across and between languages...

... the democracy of the Roman Republic. Cicero criticized the people of that time who, “either through absorption with their own self-advancement or through some more basic coldness toward others, claim that all they need to do is tend to their own business, and thus they seem...

... by two teams of cham- pion horses, one side animated by his ‘‘desire for absorption into deity’’ (that 6808 boundar is, to join the heavenly choir), and the other, ‘‘the desire to experience (and record) that desire as no one before...

... of constructive absorption: the experience of drawing into that which simultaneously draws and withdraws experience of the other. In this connection, echoing early German Romantic ideas about the reader as an extension of the author, Hamacher deduces a heteroaffec- tion and afterlife of writing: I do not write...

... eradicates the prior and the other almost as fast as it eradicates itself. (Bernstein 2016 : 297; Bernstein's emphasis). Bernstein also shifts the notions of the genre: in his work, there are many texts that could be called essay-poems, such as his “Artifice of Absorption” ( 1987 ), but also later...

... anybody with such complete absorption as she did Brawith. She felt 88 boundary 2 / Summer 2006 her own insides cried out along with his’’ (184). Are we to mention Moira and Brawith in the same breath with SpongeBob and Patrick? However that may be, this is the moment when she asks him one last time...