Chien Lunatique - Bernard, Christopher
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Love, Modernity, and the Internet Just who, or what, is le chien lunatique? The poet driven out of his mind when faced with the catastrophe of the modern world? The modern world turned into a rabid canine when faced with the hopelessly idealistic poet? Or when it looks in the mirror and sees what it has become? These poems - profound yet accessible, contemporary yet classical, eloquent and dynamic even when apparently most despairing - distill one poet's somewhat jaundiced look at modernity, from the Renaissance and the philosophical revolutions of the seventeenth century to the nihilism of…mehr

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Love, Modernity, and the Internet Just who, or what, is le chien lunatique? The poet driven out of his mind when faced with the catastrophe of the modern world? The modern world turned into a rabid canine when faced with the hopelessly idealistic poet? Or when it looks in the mirror and sees what it has become? These poems - profound yet accessible, contemporary yet classical, eloquent and dynamic even when apparently most despairing - distill one poet's somewhat jaundiced look at modernity, from the Renaissance and the philosophical revolutions of the seventeenth century to the nihilism of postmodernism, from the death of God to the bankruptcy of humanism, from the midnight of the Enlightenment to the immortalized barbarism of the internet. Yet behind all of these poems, supporting them like a hand, lies the passion that drives all of existence, old or new - the ferocious and uncompromising demands of love. A rabid dog eventually bites itself to death. So is there hope pour ce pauvre chien lunatique? Maybe there is. Maybe there isn't. Only the future knows. It sits at your feet. Growling. "An extraordinary, and extraordinarily strange, accomplishment. It is bound to offend at least one of your friends." - Jack Foley ". . . poems of diamond-like brilliance, filled with despair, passion, and surreal beauty. The poet . . . in an act of intellectual courage, climbs up on the rubble of western culture to speak truth to both power and powerlessness." - Mary Mackey, author of Sugar Zone and the novel The Village of Bones "Another entrancing book from a poet and novelist of visionary authority, whose imagination is at once brilliant and unsettling." - Ernest Hilbert, author of Caligulan "An attempt to right the world . . . a generous collection." - Simon Perchik " 'The Wife of the Painter' . . . takes my breath away . . . . 'Midnight' is . . . a masterpiece, yet so modest as to almost escape notice." - Curt Barnes "In this provocative collection of poems, Christopher Bernard emerges as a maverick bucking current tastes and trends . . . balancing an unabashed prophetic fury with poems of great love and tenderness." - Philip Fried
Autorenporträt
I grew up near the Atlantic seaboard and in the farm country of eastern Pennsylvania, and later in what many call Mexico's most beautiful city, Guadalajara; immersing myself in Russian fiction and English poetry and the Romantic music I found in my father's dusty record collection. I began writing my own stories and poems, a pirate romance and a philosophical novel; putting on magic shows and puppet plays, printing a daily "newspaper," dabbling in oil paints, inventing radio plays on a tape recorder, composing "classical music," and experimenting with a chemistry set that one day nearly blew up my bedroom. I managed to survive my perpetually changing hobbies and became school president of my junior high school, the murderer in a school detective play, and, in my senior year, poetry editor of my high school magazine. I joined a revolutionary brigade of rebellious students at Temple University, where I studied history, literature and philosophy in between bouts of guerrilla theater and counseling disaffected teenagers in the suburbs and ghettoes of Philadelphia. By my early twenties I was publishing journalism in countercultural and mainstream periodicals, giving poetry readings, and directing theater in Philadelphia, where I lived at the time.In the early 1970s I won the Temple University Student Poetry contest and in the late 1970s drove with a friend across the country to California, and have lived in San Francisco ever since. My essays, criticism, experimental fiction, and poetry have appeared in literary magazines and periodicals in the United States and Great Britain. I have also given readings in cities across the U.S. and in Canada and the U.K.My first published book, A Spy in the Ruins, was hailed by the Miguel de Cervantes Award¿winning novelist Juan Goytisolo as one of the finest American novels of the new century and compared to the work of Thomas Pynchon and William Gass. I have published two other novels since: Voyage to a Phantom City (". . . an enormous achievement ... a spare beauty in all its baroque splendor". -- Peter Bush, award-winning translator) and Meditations on Love and Catastrophe at The Liars' Cafe, "An . . . often captivating love story" - Kirkus Reviews) as well as two collections of short fiction: In the American Night ("a new classic of American fiction" - Martine Compton) and Dangerous Stories for Boys ("There is something for everyone in these stories" - Pauline Butcher Bird).My first book of poetry, The Rose Shipwreck: Poems and Photographs ("a haunting juxtaposition of verse and photos [that] shouldn't be missed by any who appreciate urban images, poetry, and art" - D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review), appeared in 2013, and my second, Chien Lunatique (a work of "visionary authority" - Ernest Hilbert, winner of the 2017 Poets' Prize), five years later. My third collection - The Socialist's Garden of Verses - won a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award and was named one of the "Top 100 Indie Books of 2021" by Kirkus Reviews. I have also written plays produced and radio broadcast in the Bay Area. I have published journalism in many periodicals across the U.S. and am a contributing writer for Synchronized Chaos Magazine. My work has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Web.In 1989 I founded, and am currently co-editor, of the literary and arts webzine Caveat Lector. I lived as the domestic partner of the translator and interpreter Keiko Kuroda for four decades until her death in early 2021. I now live alone in a penthouse apartment I call "The Aerie" as it sits on a windy bluff with a view across downtown San Francisco and the north Bay; with Tonton (the last of the many cats we brought up together) and a garden of lilies, acacia, climbing vines and roses tucked behind The Aerie that Keiko cultivated over her final years.