Poetry
Truth Be Told
Contributors
Charles BernsteinCharles Bernstein’s most recent book is Near/Miss, from the University of Chicago Press.
Charles BernsteinCharles Bernstein is the author of more than twenty books. He teaches at UPenn.
RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
Nele Wynants’s When Fact Is Fiction: Documentary Art in the Post-Truth Era
By Tiernan MorganOCT 2020 | Art Books
The anthology’s thirteen contributors, among them artists, photographers, broadcasters, and filmmakers, analyze projects that exemplify the discursive and rhetorical value of blurring the distinction between fiction and reality. But, despite its title, the contemporary context of online culture, populism, and “fake news” are almost entirely absent from its pages.
LigoranoReese: School of Good Citizenship
By Marisa LererJUL-AUG 2020 | ArtSeen
Through the School of Good Citizenship, LigoranoReese have created compelling collaborations that activate dialogues related to previous subjects that they’ve tackled such as the meaning of democracy, the nature of the economy, and the contestation of truth.
Partial Reveals & Inclusive Revelations in the Post-Truth Simulacracy: The Poetics
By Chris CampanioniJUL-AUG 2020 | Books
The Poetics is interested in exactly this conjunction, and Ives questions both the narrative of history and the history of narrative as a form in elaborate, strident observations that are illuminating and speculative.
Shokoofeh Azar’s The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
By John DominiAPRIL 2020 | Books
Which version counts as the truth? That dangerous term? Plainly, Azar would answer both, arguing that the Old Gods still hold value, “still alive and reacting,” even as she recognizes how “mysticism didn’t offer any simple solutions to murder, plunder, poverty, or human injustice.”
