Short Course, by Ted Greenwald & Charles Bernstein

Description

Letterpress Covers on lovely pink papers, printed in two colors. Each book with an individually painted image by Cynthia Miller.

Text of book printed in two colors. Each copy hand numbered. 7 inches x 10 inches. 28 pages. Bound via hand sewing into pink paper covers with French flaps.

Poems are from an ongoing collaboration by Ted Greenwald and Charles Bernstein in which one author sends the other a few lines, and the next responds, until they decide the poem is finished. First poem of SHORT COURSE is “Breaking News,” which begins

Day turns paragraph
Proxy comma sighs
Medical meadow A

Séance in triple meter
Dull determination hedge
On silicone arrivals

If you or loved one
Without you and no they
No this magneto

Tango goes by code name
Divine pairings: tea & . . .
Mango presto chaser (to go)

All in all, the book is an inventive and experimental delight of language playing in the fields of the mind, and vice versa.

Published in April 2016, hand sewn by Charles Alexander (the book designer) and students at UHV Center for the Arts, where Charles Bernstein visited on April 28 and 29, 2016.