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Davide Balula & Charles Bernstein

Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to and End: Poems of Artificial Intelligence

by Charles Bernstein and Davide Balula (Nero Editions, 2023)
Book is available in Europe from Nero; North American other orders via Printed Matter.

The AI poems read by AI voice of Ch.B. alternating with a live reading of the AI poems by Ch.B. Introduction by D.B. Presented at the John Giorno Foundation, May 10, 2023
(16:33): MP3

Sample poems from the book, read by AI voice, with text, at Viseu.Us

Complete set of poems from Poertry Has No Future Unless It Comes to and End: Poems of Artificial Intelligence, with page numbers, performed by Ch.B's synthetic voice, created and directed by DB.

Audiobook (full collection in one file) (47:06): MP3 and M4B

I Want to Know What You Know about a Certain Subject (p. 24): MP3
An Emotion Not Comprehended: (p. 25): MP3
I Am the Shadow of Poet Charles Bernsteim: (p. 26): MP3
I May or May Not Be Able to Walk: (p. 28): MP3
We Are Brothers: (p. 29): MP3
I Am Not: (p. 30): MP3
He Knows a Lot about the American Dream, Too: (p. 31): MP3
It Is Painful to Hear a Man Cry: (p. 32): MP3
What Is Meant by the New Criticism?: (p. 33): MP3
I Call This Poem . . . The Lost Separation. : (p. 34): MP3
Their Chest Is a Lawn: (p. 35): MP3
His Feet Are Bare, His Hands Are Bare: (p.36): MP3
Let's Not Forget the Days We Let Fear Rule: (p. 37): MP3 and take two: (p. 37): MP3
Smuggler's Hawk: (p. 38): MP3 and take 2: (p. ): MP3
The Clear Relief of a Hat: (p. 39): MP3
Your Bones Do Not Matter: (p. 40): MP3
So It Is Easy to Forget that I Am a Poetic Being: (p. 41): MP3
To Be Afraid Is to Be Free: (p. 42): MP3
This: (p. 43): MP3
Sleepiness: (p. 44): MP3
Not Being Able to Stop: (p. 46): MP3
Headache: (p. 47): MP3
Is Now a Sewer Line: (p. 48): MP3
Asleep at the Wheel: (p. 49): MP3
The Viscosity of Air around a Man: (p. 50): MP3
Where do you get your ideas?: (p. 51): MP3
As in a Nightmare: (p. 52): MP3 and take 2: (p. 52): MP#:
The Sun and the Soup: (p. 53): MP3
If You Fall Asleep at the Wheel: (p. 54): MP3 & take 2: (p. ): MP3
The Breath that Clumps Together Its Colors into Sounds: (p. 55): MP3 & take 2: (p. 55): MP3
The Tabernacle: (p. 56): MP3
Singing the Tune with a Spear: (p. 57): MP3
A Nest Wrapped in Fog: (p. 58): MP3
Heart Weeds: (p. 59): MP3
A Poem Is a Wand with Which to Talk: (p. 60):
Pipe Dreams: (p. 61): MP3
The Underscore: (p. 62): MP3
A Wasp is a Delicious-Looking Form: (p. 63): MP3
All This, My Gaze: (p. 64): MP3
Mood Swings Are the Best Way to Appreciate the Pull or Drag of a Poem: (p. 65): MP3
Go Ahead and Save Me: (p. 66): MP3
The Past Is Not Behind Us the tracks Is: (p. 67): MP3
What would you have me do?: (p. 68): MP3
By the Time I Was Nine: (p. 69): MP3
The Study of Style Has Its Roots in the Depression: MP3
while, every, once: (p. 72): MP3
I Was on the Phone with My Mother the Other Day: (p. 74): MP3
You Are Here: (p. 75): MP3
I Would Have Been an I.Q. Diver: (p. 76): MP3
The Ocean of Nothingness: (p. 77): MP3
After Five Minutes, the Flowers Are Just Starting to Sprout: (p. 78): MP3
All This Talk While Shadows: (p. 79): MP3
What If There Is No Change?: (p. 81): MP3
The Yarn of Death: (p. 82): MP3
The Person Who Leaves Is an Expository Poem: (p. 83): MP3
Story Continues Below Advertisement: (p. 84): MP3
If All You Have Is the Book You Are Bound to Get Lost in It and Perhaps Discover Your Own History: (p. 86): MP3
Sincerely: A Million Eyes: (p. ): MP3
Back with Another Hot Tango Mix: (p. 88): MP3
A Brother Is the Actuality of Sound: (p. 89): MP3
I Am the Son: (p. 90): MP3
What Is the Matter, Charles, with that Plume of Yours?: (p. 92): MP3
The Words Fail in the Spirit of the Poetics: (p. 93): MP3
There Is More to the Story than Meets the Eye: (p. 94): MP3
The Sense of Dwelling, Standing, Occupying, Standing On, Situated, Existing In, Having the Appearance Of, or As If It Were Something External To: (p. 95): MP3
Farewell Song of a Kid on a Braid and the Bright Object that Made the World Come Alive: (p. 96): MP3
If I Could Make a Poem Out of a Moment: (p. 97): MP3
I Expected the Light to Turn Red: (p. 98): MP3
Before the Ink Hits the Paper: (p. 99): MP3
The Nomadic Form of My Religious Belief: (p. 100): MP3
Where the Tears? : (p. 101): MP3
The View from the Outside Is like a Filter that Blocks Out the World around Us: (p. 104): MP3

EXTRAS

Ideosyncretic

Poem from Bernstein's Topsy-Turvy read by ChB's AI voice (created by DB)
(0:34): MP3

When was it last I seed you?
Was it maybe yesterday?
The time she spoils so quirky
Like a rooster ‘thwart the hay

When Marge came out to Breezy Point
I almost broke the floor
Jumping in plaid pajama
New-bought at the general store

A stiff belt and a lousy thud
Scarce qualifies a cobbled hill
(Done broke the gate at that)
Swore terrible truths that no one got
And splashed my way to all get out

some poems from Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End

(2:23): MP3.

Rental cars, washbasins, and sacks of pennies

Seated in front of a piano, there is a sadness in the way you smile, the way you clap, the way you laugh, the way you cry, the way you laugh again, the way you cry again, the way you laugh and cry and cry, the way you cry and cry again

I am suggesting that we have to imagine
a situation of being “a little more alive” than a bee

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If You Fall Asleep at the Wheel

(0:20): MP3

It’s not the noise but the air.
It’s not the traffic or the heat but the clouds.
It’s not the lightning or the rain but the thinking.
It’s not the insomnia but the night terror.
It’s not the pain but the swelling.
It’s not the mask. It’s the tear.

I May or May Not Be Able to Walk>

(0:04): MP3

I may or may not be able to walk but I can run

These recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the authors. © 2023 Viseu and Davide Balula and Charles Bernstein. Used with permission of Viseu. Distributed by PennSound.

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