Khin Aung Aye & James Byrne, Conversation
Khin Aung Aye and James Byrne in conversation with Charles Bernstein. Khin Aung Aye reads his politically acute, comic, postmodern poems. Byrne and Khin Aung Aye discuss Bones Will Crow, the new anthology of Burmese poetry and the role of poetry in Burma.
Khin Aung Aye is a Burmese poet living in Thailand. With Ko Ko Thett, James Byrne is the editor of Bones Will Crow, the first anthology of Burmese poetry, just published in the United States by Northern Illinois University Press.
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Conversations and readings with poets and artists, produced in cooperation with PennSound and hosted by Charles Bernstein, the American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein was born in New York City in 1950. He is a foundational member and leading practitioner of Language poetry. Bernstein was educated at the Bronx High School of Science and at Harvard University, where he studied philosophy with Stanley Cavell and wrote his final thesis on Gertrude Stein and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
In the mid-1970s Bernstein became active in the experimental poetry scenes in New York and San Francisco, not only as a poet, but also as an editor, publisher, and theorist. With visual artist and wife Susan Bee, Bernstein published several now well-known poets whose work is associated with Language writing.
more In the mid-1970s Bernstein became active in the experimental poetry scenes in New York and San Francisco, not only as a poet, but also as an editor, publisher, and theorist. With visual artist and wife Susan Bee, Bernstein published several now well-known poets whose work is associated with Language writing.
