The following poems were written through Charles Bernstein's words and tropes by American poet Genji Amino who studied with Bernstein at the University of Pennsylvania. The poems are from a new book forthcoming from Peel Books, the press Genji Amino is starting.
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he is considered this great
author
but
it wasn’t it didn’t move me per se
for
years in terms of that white male other
that
has to create that balance otherwise
am
i gonna be some woman's
mother's
nightmare
oh
he writes poetry
get him the hell out of here
i
don’t understand his mind
what
are his values
we all go through this
poetry is not any more happy
than the century in
which it is in
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Dante is
Dante
and the bus driver
is the bus driver
but I'm not
convinced about that difference
when he was
graduating harvard
that could either make you feel or it could make you feel
call it adolescent sublime
he attacks songs of poets as the beauty of nature and so on
put their heads in
the sand in his generation
to take away that idea
nothing makes any
difference
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I have other stuff happening
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I'm seen or remarked
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I live in
different communities
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I never leave my house
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I get distracted
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I like to imagine everybody
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I can tap right in
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I like the truth
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I like
the suggestion
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I like to do it to
myself
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It's poetical here
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It’s very hokey but
wonderful
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It's not for good or
for bad
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It’s not like it
used to be
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It’s jarring
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It’s just terrific
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It goes both ways
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It’s a warm day in March
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And I am in Philadelphia
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Living in New York
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With everybody else
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I'm trying
I can't go as fast I'm not sure what they'll think this is just a fake-out I'm
just kidding psych
I'm not
it's not for me
I'm just facing the music
I have a life
grew up
was necessary
acted
I go to the john
I want everyone to know this
to pay my rent
listen,
I can take a hint
if there's anything
I can take my pride
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ball park figure
troubles me
just so immediate
just by osmosis
most people think that
because
it seems so public
an apt
metaphor
an conflicting relationship
in a kind of American vernacular
few did that
take this point
squared it out
not very eloquent
crispness on the one hand
maximalizes the power
everyday words with new vitality
a very important locus of discussion
massive
and even
well aware
beyond
the issue
was not just appealing
a scheme a
sound an idea
something
like a movement
devil
may
for somebody like me
in a way
it’s not exactly straightforward
takes
it away
salad bowl vision of America
people you feel are less well off
new ideas in theory
far out
crazy
like many people
the discussion of the young house wife online
the flow of everyday
more
along the lines
I’m just interested
it is my view
he would
have thought
depends
on what you mean
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A lecture
Fragments from the 17th
Manifesto of Internet author of
Archive by Hermes Hermeneutic
Nude Formalism in My Ear
Thank You – Regan
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