Bernstein, Felix: Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry

Insert Press, paperback Publication Date: April 06, 2015 Publisher Marketing: An aggravated surveyer of contemporary poetry, art, and criticism, Felix Bernstein conducts an archaeological dig of the relics and ruins of Language poetry, Conceptual poetry, and his own familiar familial corpus. In insistent, self-aware langauge, Bernstein shows how Millennial artists, literary movements, and political philosophies interface with 20th-century aesthetics by revising and reinforcing the daunting trifecta of post-structuralism, critical theory, and postmodernism. Felix Bernstein debuted on YouTube in 2008 with his disarming and satirical coming-out video, going on, in later videos, to play Amy Winehouse, Lamb Chop, and Leopold (Peter) Brant. With Gabe Rubin, he made the films Unchained Melody and Boyland. Together they directed and starred in Red Krayola's opera Victorine at the 2012 Whitney Biennial. Bernstein's critical and uncritical writings have appeared in Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyper