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Portraits:
Series One Get the Flash Player to see this player.
Régis's
Palms
Régis and I were riding
through the outskirts of São Paulo on our way to Campinas.The
World Cup was on and Régis shares
Brazil's big-time enthrallment with the series. At one point,
in an email, Régis reprimanded me for referring to the "Australia
and Brazil game." "In
Brazil, you never write the 'Brazil - Australia game', but 'Brazil
x Australia'. The x meaning the match, the 'hardness' of the
game .... It sounds like a battle, for us, not like
a game." Régis told
me he was devoted to a local football team and went to almost
all their games."My team's name
is Palmeiras (Palms), founded in 1914 by Italian immigrants
to keep alive Italian traditions in São Paulo." I
asked him how the team was doing.
June 29, 2006
(mp4, 23
seconds, 3 mb)
George on the Fourth
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George LakoffGeorge came to visit Susan Bee and me on the Fourth of July. He was in town to promote his new book, Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Ideal. I asked him why John Kerry had failed to respond forcefully to the Swift Boat smears. You can hear Susan in the background.
July 4, 2006
(mp4, 1 min., 8 mb)
Leslie Loses Her Breath
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Leslie was in New York for
the Poetry Project panels on her work. She came by our place
for lox & bagels. I asked her about the time she literally
lost her breath in Tibet.
November 12, 2006
(mp4, 48 seconds, 7.8 mb)
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Henry HillsI turned the tables on Henry, who has been filming me for thirty years. He was briefly in New York, on his way back to Prague, where he has been living for the past year.
July 26, 2006
(mp4, 30 sec., 4 mb)
Mimi on the Beach
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Mimi GrossMimi believes the key thing about doing portraits is the relationship you have with the subject. A couple of years ago, she did a portrait of Felix and me. We were at Herring Cove beach and Mimi, as always, had brought a sketchbook. Talking to Mimi gave me the idea to do these portraits.
August 8, 2006
(mp4, 40 sec., 5 mb)
Loss
& Beans Get the Flash Player to see this player.
Caroline's
Norwegian Speakin'
Get the Flash Player to see this player. Portraits page 1 : Regis Bonvicino, George Lakoff, Heny Hills, Mimi Gross, Loss Pequeno Glazier, Caroline Bervgvall thanks to Steve McLaughlin for technical assitance on this series. These video recordings are being made available
for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this
recorded material belong to the author. (C) 2006 Charles Bernstein.
Used with permission of Charles Bernstein. Distributed by PennSound.
I was back in Buffalo and at
one my favorite spots, Ted's Red Hots (the one on Niagara Falls
Boulevard). We got to talking about Cuba, which we had visited,
together with Ernesto Livon-Grosman, Johanna Drucker, and
Brad Freeman, in January 2003. Loss met his future wife on that
trip. I asked him what
he liked to eat in Havana.
June 26, 2006
(mp4, 1 min., 7.4 mb)
In June, 2005, I was invited to read at poetry festival
in Norway. I couldn't go, but I urged the organizers to invite
Caroline, who grew up, at least partly, in Norway, but nobody
there (at least among the poets I know) were aware of that. But
they sure are now.
November 12, 2006
(mp4, 32 seconds, 4.3 mb)
Portraits page 2 : Pierre Joris, Wysten Curnow, Levhi Lehto, Robert Grenier, James Sherry, Johanna Drucker
Portraits page 3 : Ann Lauterbach, Karen Mac Cormack, Steve McCaffery, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Nick Piombino, Richard Tuttle
Portraits page 4 : Rd Smith, Nicole Brossard, Douglad Messerli, Peter Middleton, Norman Fischer, Tina Darragh
Portraits page 5 : Myung Mi Kim, Charles Alexander, Alan Davies, P. Inman, Phong Bui, Bob Perelman
Portraits page 6: Kennth Goldsmith, John Yau, Peter Gizzi, Dubravka Djuric, Elizabeth Willis, Tan Lin
Portraits page 7: John Ashbery, Rae Armantrout, Emma Bee Bernstein, Susan Howe, Sigmund Laufer
Portraits page 8: Maggie O'Sullivan, Christian Bök, Darren Wershler, Tony Foster, Marty Ehrlich & Erica Hunt, Lev Rubinstein