{"id":550,"date":"2010-04-05T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/05\/charles-bernstein-verdi-postmodernism\/"},"modified":"2010-04-04T20:32:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T00:32:27","slug":"charles-bernstein-verdi-postmodernism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/05\/charles-bernstein-verdi-postmodernism\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Bernstein, “Verdi and Postmodernism”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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She walks in beauty like the swans
\nthat on a summer day do swarm
\n& crawls as deftly as a spoon
\n& spills & sprawls & booms.<\/p>\n

These moments make a monument
\nthen fall upon a broken calm
\nthen fly into more quenchless rages
\nthan Louis Quatorze or Napoleon.<\/p>\n

If I could make one wish I might
\noverturn a state, destroy a kite
\nbut with no wishes still I gripe
\ncomplaint’s a Godly-given right.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

All the Whiskey in Heaven<\/i><\/a> puts together selected poems from Charles Bernstein’s previous collections over the last 35 years, from Asylums<\/i> to Girly Man<\/i>. It also includes “A Test of Poetry<\/a>” (reprinted by the Poetry Foundation) but not “Sad Boy’s Sad Boy<\/a>) (Poetry<\/i>). In this video, Bernstein reads two other poems from the collection, including the one that supplies its title.<\/p>\n

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Two years ago, Bernstein called for a bailout of America’s poetry culture<\/a>; four years before that, he was explaining why National Poetry Month is a fraud<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She walks in beauty like the swans that on a summer day do swarm & crawls as deftly as a spoon & spills & sprawls & booms. These moments make a monument then fall upon a broken calm then fly into more quenchless rages than Louis Quatorze or Napoleon. If I could make one wish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}