Jen Bervin

»En orms vrikken er ligeså vigtig som likvideringen af en præsident.« Jen Bervin (f. 1972), amerikansk forfatter og billedkunstner. Silkedigte er alternativ historie, poesi, science fiction og civilisationshistorie i ét. Bogen er skrevet fra en silkeorms perspektiv, der ser tilbage på sit liv et sted engang i fremtiden, fortæller og væver, mens skriften, trådene og stoffet langsomt bliver til. På dansk er tidligere udkommet Sølvbogen (2016). Silkedigte udgives i samarbejde mellem Forlaget Virkelig og Laboratoriet for Æstetik og Økologi.

Started in 2009, IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. In its ten-year anniversary in November 2019, 30 famous poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong and ten cities in China afterwards to read their works based on the theme ""Speech and Silence."" Jen Bervin (United States) is a poet and visual artist.

Den amerikanska poeten och konstnären Jen Bervin lägger ett nät över William ShakespearesSonetter för att låta nya dikter kliva ut ur den befintliga texten vilken ligger kvar i bakgrunden. När en poet skriver en sonett står hen framför en palimpsest, framför samma pergament på vilket det har skrivits och suddats ut tusen och åter tusen sonetter; i samma ögonblick som hen skriver sonetten hamnar hen oundvikligen i palimpsestens makt. Jen Bervin konkretiserar i Nät arvet som vilar på varje poets axlar när hennes dikter träder fram ur hans ord. Med Eva Ströms svenska översättningar av Shakespeares Sonetter i bakgrunden tolkar Niclas Nilsson Bervin genom att lyfta fram ord till nya dikter.

In conjunction with Tufts University’s Silk Lab’s cutting-edge research on liquified silk, Jen Bervin wrote a poem composed in a six-character chain that corresponds to the DNA structure of silk; modeled on the way a silkworm applies filament to its cocoon. This poem, written from the perspective of the silkworm, explores the cultural, scientific, and linguistic complexities of silk written inside the body.

Poetry. "Jen Bervin has reimagined Shakespeare as our true contemporary. Her little poems sing" Paul Auster. In NETS, poet and artist Jen Bervin strips Shakespeare's sonnets "bare to the nets," chiseling away at the familiar lines to reveal surprising new poems, while pointing obliquely at the unavoidably intertextual ground of writing. Using visual compositional strategies as effectively as verbal ones, Bervin allows the discarded text to remain on the page as a ghostly presence, while she highlights the marginal line-numbers that allude to the sonnets' canonization."

"Is a non-remote horizon always a concealment? If a portion of sky has been carved and set loose to rest upon land, is it the result of an illegal language spoken in the town?" Ben Marcus, from A Horizon Grammar A hybrid of artist's book and catalog, this unique publication, designed in collaboration with the artist, is divided into three separate books. One features photographs of Sky-wreck, Mirra's conceptually multi-layered, 2001 installation at the Renaissance Society, accompanied by an essay from Hamza Walker which explicates Sky-wreck'stangled mathematical, visual and poetic aspects, and how these interwoven forms of signification within the piece ultimately "question the ability for that which is unfathomable to assume representation." Another section contains reproductions of Mirra's earlier work, meditated on from a more personal standpoint by poet and friend of Mirra, Jen Bervin, with footnotes from Mirra herself. The third section is an intensely beautiful collaboration between Mirra and experimental fiction writer Ben Marcus, juxtaposing Mirra's exquisite working drawings for Sky-wreck with Marcus's surreal poetic response to them entitled A Horizon Grammar.