A collection of A.I. Generated poems by Charles Bernstein & Davide Balula. Read by Charles Bernstein’s synthetic voice
The poems in this collection were generated between April 2020 and May 2022 by a neural network trained on Charles Bernstein’s own writing The readings in the following audiobook were performed by a synthetic voice trained on Charles Bernstein’s natural voice. (see credits below for more information). Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End: Poems of Artificial Intelligence was published on paper by NERO Editions, Fall/Winter 2023 with additional support from KAJE.world. A preview of some poems (text and audio) can be found on Viseu.Us.
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TABLE OF CONTENT
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
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Edition: 300ex.
Format: 17 x 24 cm
Pages: 104
Language: EN
Year: 2023
ISBN: 978-88-8056-218-4
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A.I. Model and training:
OpenAi (Under Modified MIT Licence 2019), Harry Carey, Davide Balula. Charles Bernstein's synthetic voice was trained with recordings from the audiobooks Topsy-Turvey, 2021 and Near/Miss, 2018, both published by University of Chicago Press.
List of works of Charles Bernstein used for training:
Three Compositions on Philosophy and Literature [Three Steins] (1972)
Asylums (New York: Asylum’s Press, 1975)
Parsing (New York: Asylum’s Press, 1976)
Shade (College Park, MD: Sun & Moon Press, 1978)
Poetic Justice [1975-77] (Baltimore: Pod Books, 1979)
Controlling Interests (New York: Roof Books, 1980)
Islets/Irritations (New York: Jordan Davies, 1983)
Content’s Dream: Essays 1975-1984 (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986)
The Sophist (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1987)
A Poetics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992)
Dark City (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1994)
My Way: Speeches and Poems (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999)
Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 2000)
With Strings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001)
Girly Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006)
All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)
Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Recalculating (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Pitch of Poetry (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
Near/Miss (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018)
The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Letters: Selected 1970s Correspondence of Bruce Andrews, Ron Silliman, and Charles Bernstein, edited by Matthew Hofer and Michael Golston (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019). Bernstein letters only.
Topsy-Turvy (Advanced Copy) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Countless generations of programs, machines, and extracted materials were involved in the process of creating this book. We would like to acknowledge the very long chain of people (anonymous for the most part) who were instrumental in making this project possible. Special thanks to Harry Carey for developing a custom version of the model and for setting up the framework for the training process, the whole team at OpenAI for sharing their original transformers early under modified MIT license, 2019, and Tim Pearson (and the Haskell Group), Catherine Malabou, Kate Crawford, Isabelle Stengers, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Rachel Valinsky, Tynan Kogane, Jon Cotant, Sean Fabi, Lorenzo Gigotti, Julia Trotta, Ju&Ce, Do&Je, Pi&Co, for everything else. DB, New York City, 11.12.22