Poetry
Truth Be Told
Contributors
Charles BernsteinCharles Bernstein is a poet. Charles Bernstein’s most recent contribution to the Rail was an interview with Etel Adnan (February 2021). His most recent book is Topsy-Turvy from the University of Chicago Press.
Charles BernsteinCharles Bernstein is the author of more than twenty books. He teaches at UPenn.
RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
Playing with the Truth: Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance and the Memory of Marcel Marceau
By Christopher AtamianJUNE 2021 | Dance
Christopher Atamian writes about the art and life of Marcel Marceau. He shares an interview with the renowned mime and choreographer’s daughter Camille, who sets the record straight on her father’s activities during World War II following Jonathan Jakubowicz’s film Resistance released this past year.
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.
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.
Diane Severin Nguyen: If Revolution Is a Sickness
By Rachel RemickNOV 2021 | ArtSeen
We might see Nguyen’s film as an elegy to failed revolutions or the ways in which all revolutions transform themselves and become institutionalized, a memorial to lost histories, or histories that never took root. As the narrator at the beginning of the film asks comrade Weronika, “where is the truth of unremembered things?”
